Classification Activities

It's In the Cards
Classification Have students bring in Valentine cards after the holiday and sort them into categories: sweet, humorous, musical, cute, pop-up, rhyming, etc. Bar graph the results. Discuss why some types of cards might be more popular than others.

Animal Classification
This lesson will help students understand that classification is the arrangement of objects, ideas, or information into groups, the members of which have one or more characteristics in common. The will also understand that classification makes things easier to find, identify, and study.

Classify That!
This lesson will help your students' expand their knowledge of living organisms and further develop their ability to group, or classify, living organisms according to a variety of common features.

Fingerprinting: A Lesson on Classification
Here students will learn how to sort into groups by likenesses and differences.

Let's Identify and Classify
Students will classify according to observable characteristics, then students will prepare a key showing their classification system, and finally, they will determine the validity of their classmates' classification systems.

Potato Chip Classification
Students will understand and utilize a simple classification scheme.