Students could also illustrate their words and arrange the illustrations around the chart. Each word on the chart could be grouped according to the sense used. Sentences using the word in a descriptive context could be displayed. The identification and classification of the words is an opportunity to compare what is being learned with their prior experiences. Construction paper of various colours can be cut into circles, squares, triangles, trapezoids, parallelograms, and irregular shapes of two or three different sizes.
Students sort the pieces into groups and state the criterion on which their sorting was based.
This is repeated using different criteria. Critical and Creative Thinking . The generation of alternative classification systems from the same set of objects allows students to begin to make the connection to the existence of different ways of knowing about or perceiving the same objects, events, or experience. Take the students on a hike around the school yard. Have them collect a variety of small objects.