Despite a tremendous increase in the use of video for conducting research in classrooms as well as preparing and evaluating teachers, there remain notable challenges to using classroom videos at scale, including time and financial costs. Recent advances in artificial intelligence could make the process of analyzing, scoring, and cataloguing videos…

Describes an activity in which students learn about sorting and classifying. Involves students determining what animal or geometric figure is on their back by asking their peers yes/no questions. (JRH)

Presents computer and computer-related activities for young students. These include an activity demonstrating a sorting procedure for punched cards similar to those used by computers, a short Atari music program, an activity involving "bar codes" found on commercial products, and others. (JN)

Briefly outlines three classroom activities to (1) promote classification skills, (2) encourage cultural awareness, and (3) provide summer activities for parents and children to do together. (CI)

Provides lesson plans for stimulating children's oral storytelling in preparation for writing, expanding children's curiosity about computers, and extending children's language and communication skills through classifying and grouping materials from home and school. (RH)

Monstermania is with us, folks, and the idea here is to put King Kong and some of the other creatures favored by your kids to work for you in class. It's not as monstrous as it sounds; in fact, it's downright easy. (Editor)

Advocates the use of classification activities in the elementary school curriculum as a means of developing thinking skills in children. Critical preclassification skills, classification activities (including simple and multiple classification), and classification tasks and materials are discussed. (Author/RH)

The focus is on how reasoning can be developed through the study of two-dimensional shapes, their properties, and the relationships among them. Research on children's understanding of geometric shapes is reviewed and activities to develop analyzing and classifying skills are given, with a bibliography included. (MNS)

Provides instructions and worksheets for activities on: (1) sorting sets (grades K-one); (2) telling place values of two-/three-digit numbers (grades two-four); (3) recognizing multiplication/division facts (grades four-six); and (4) computing problems that contain multiples of 10, place value problems, and subtraction problems with many zeros…

Provides sample observation activities to accompany the nursery tale of Chicken Little. Includes five activities that involve the skills of observing, communicating, comparing, ordering, and categorizing to engage students in hands-on science. (DDR)

Described are activities using jar lids for sorting, classifying, and graphing; ordering; and measuring circumference and diameter. (MNS)

A review of research about museum education and a description of a group of gifted elementary school students' museum-building activities (display techniques, collection of resources, classification and arrangement methods, and work with outside donors) indicate that museum-building is a stimulating activity which encourages independent study and…

Offers an approach for teaching a unit on classification that combines various software programs with traditional science teaching methods. Provides procedural directives for the activities and explains the objectives of each exercise. (ML)

Presents a developmental taxonomy which promotes sequencing activities to enhance the potential of matching these activities with learner needs and readiness, suggesting that the order commonly found in the classroom needs to be inverted. The proposed taxonomy (story, skill, and algorithm) involves problem-solving emphasis in the classroom. (JN)

Science instruction activities listed in this article can be duplicated for parents and children to work on together at home. Topics covered include: (1) investigating water; (2) plants and animals; (3) the human body; (4) sorting and classifying; and (5) shadows. (CJ)