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Title
Classifying Shoes
Teacher(s)
Alison Dunford
Alison.dunford@cobbk12.org
E-mail
School
Lesson
Title
Classifying Shoes
Grade
Level
5th
Lesson
Essential
Questions
Safety Considerations
Teacher will review safety rules and procedures already in place.
EXPLORE:
Bring students to a group or circle around the shoe pile. Allow students to
ask a question with only two possible outcomes to begin sorting the shoes
laces/no laces. Students take turns offering the 2-outcome criteria
(characteristics), and majority approves or troubleshoots the suggestions.
Students should record characteristics chosen on a list in their interactive
notebooks. While students are listing, teacher will create a dichotomous key
tree style is great for this, and introduce it as a graphic organizer for
classification.
EXPLAIN:
While students are listing, teacher will create a dichotomous key tree style
is great for this, and introduce it as a graphic organizer for classification.
Teacher may ask guiding questions so students may begin to see how
classification works. For example color is a characteristic if students say blue
or not-blue.
EXTEND:
Student Choice must be standards-based - possible options include:
EVALUATE:
Students should summarize their learning in writing in their interactive
science notebooks. Prompt them to answer the question, How do you think
this is similar to ways that scientists classify living things? They may review
their characteristics list to help them.
Documentation of Resources
Harcourt Science Text Page 270-271