Lesson Plan
Sort it Out!
In this lesson, your students will make healthy choices by sorting healthy and unhealthy foods that they eat daily! Students will learn to sort data by color and many more categories!
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Learning Objectives
Students will be able to group items into different categories. Students will be able to compare the number of items in various categories.
Introduction
(15 minutes)- Ask students if they know what the word sorting means. Explain that sort means to put certain types of people, things, or items in a group.
- Ask if they know what the word classifying means. Explain that it means to give the group a name.
- Write out these words with the definition on the board.
- Ask students how they can sort and classify students in the classroom. If students are unable to come up with anything, give an example and go around the class asking each student to give an example. Examples could include hair color, students who like sports, and eye color.