Students must dig for dino-bones, but carefully. Again, we do a lot of class activities before this box is added for independent work. There are several levels of classification activities. For the first, I place thirty small objects in the box. Labeled sorting trays and cards for labels are added.
Students simply sort the materials.
This time, thirty objects are placed in the box, but the trays are NOT labeled. Sort the items into groups. Use the cards to make a label for each group. Remember you can sort by color, shape, size, how a thing is used, etc. After doing a few Venn Diagrams in class, an activity box is added.