Summary
This is a collection of instructional strategies that can be used in the classroom to help students improve their classifying skills. Classifying is a valuable skill for students to develop as it allows them to organize information and see relationships between different items. This process helps them understand and remember information better. Classifying enables students to develop their critical thinking skills by forcing them to analyze and compare information. It also prepares them for real-world problem solving, as many job tasks involve categorizing information and making decisions based on that information. The ability to classify is essential for students in their academic and future professional lives.Resources
Affinity Process
- 6th - 12th
This strategy engages students in organizing ideas into themes to summarize content or find points of agreement. Students respond to a prompt and work in groups to organize the responses into themes. Read more »
Created by: Mariah Warren
July 24th, 2023
- Individual, Whole Class
- Engage/Opening, Explain/Closing, Evaluate/Assessment
- Less Than 10 Minutes, 10 - 20 Minutes
- Activate Prior Knowledge, Brainstorming, Collaborate, Organize, Review, Student Choice
- 6th - 12th
Card Matching
- 6th - Undergraduate
This formative assessment strategy involves finding pairs (or sets) of cards that uniquely share the same relationship or attribute. Card decks do not need to have equal size groups. Consider creating uneven matches, where there are more of one type of card than another, or creating some cards that... Read more »
Created by: Michell Eike
May 17th, 2024
- Small Group, Whole Class
- Engage/Opening, Evaluate/Assessment
- 10 - 20 Minutes, 20 - 30 Minutes
- Analyze, Critical Thinking, Interpret, Organize, Reason, Recognize, Reflection
- 6th - Undergraduate
Card Sort
- Preschool - 12th
This strategy is used in a variety of ways to organize prior knowledge about a concept or topic and has students practice argumentative communication by debating their answers with a group or partner. Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
February 9th, 2024
- Individual, Whole Class
- Engage/Opening, Explore/Learning Activity, Explain/Closing, Extend/Additional Learning Activity
- 10 - 20 Minutes
- Activate Prior Knowledge, Analyze, Conversation Starter, Critical Thinking, Identify, Interpret, Organize, Reason, Recognize, Reflection, Student Choice
- Preschool - 12th
Honeycomb Harvest
- Preschool - 12th
This activity "harvests" student understanding of the logical relationships between words and concepts. Read more »
Created by: Nicole Watkins
February 7th, 2024
- Individual
- Engage/Opening, Explore/Learning Activity, Explain/Closing, Extend/Additional Learning Activity, Evaluate/Assessment
- 20 - 30 Minutes
- Activate Prior Knowledge, Analyze, Collaborate, Compare & Contrast, Critical Thinking, Evaluate, Identify, Organize, Reason, Self-assessment
- Preschool - 12th
WICK
- 3rd - 12th
This engaging strategy provides a way for students to categorize information and think critically about content. Read more »
Created by: Laura Halstied
September 7th, 2022
- Whole Class
- Explain/Closing, Evaluate/Assessment
- 10 - 20 Minutes
- Active Engagement, Critical Thinking, Evaluate, Reflection
- 3rd - 12th
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