Honestly, 30 Days to Get Activ: Days 1-7 detailed everything needed to create a traditional lesson.  Now, it’s time to get “active” by creating a flipchart page in which students will critically examine and classify information.

Classifying is a thinking skill used to organize information and ideas.  It is vital for processing information and applying the information in new ways.  Classifying develops students’ ability to identify common features, improves their ability to handle and interpret information, and enables them to retrieve that information from their long-term memories more easily.  It encourages students to critically examine concepts and gain an insight into the principles and structures of the subject for themselves.

Below are examples of Classifying Activities.  Classifying Activities can be used across the curriculum.

         

      

Day 8: Create a Classifying Activity

Step 1: Drag from the Resource Library something to hide the items to be classified.

Step 2: Right Click on the object behind which the other items will hide.

Step 3: Choose Edit.

Step 4: Choose Layer.

Step 5: Choose Top.

Step 6:  Once the object is the correct size and in the correct location, lock it into place by right clicking on the object and selecting Lock.

Step 7:  Place on the flipchart page the items to be classified. Items can be text or pictures.  They will automatically be placed on the middle layer.

Step 8:  Drag all items to be hidden behind the 1^st object.