Sorting Activities for Teachers
This collection of sorting activities covers a wide range of Numeracy, Literacy, Science, Social Studies, Geography, History, Health, Physical Education, Technology and The Arts topics. These sorting activities help consolidate your students' understanding by encouraging them to identify, sort and group different items into alike categories. This collection of sorting activities can be used for whole class, group or independent tasks.
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Solids, Liquids and Gases – Sorting Activity
A sorting activity to help students identify solids, liquids and gases.
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Movement of Animals Sorting Activity
An animal movements sorting activity.
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Spin or Slide Sorting Activity
A sorting activity with a focus on motion.
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Simple Machines Sorting Activity
A fun sorting activity to use in the classroom when learning about simple machines and how they work.
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Plant Life Cycle Sort
Help your students concrete their understanding of the plant life cycle with this interactive game.
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Uses of Materials Sorting Activity
A fun sorting activity for students to explore the materials objects are made of.
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Push and Pull Sorting Activity
A sorting activity to help students identify actions that use push and pull.
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Often and Sometimes Food Sorting Activity
A sorting activity to help students recognise healthy and unhealthy foods.
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Word Family Pumpkin Sort
Enhance your phonics lessons with a pumpkin-themed word family game.
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What's My Colour? - Matchup Activity
Use this resource in the classroom when learning and reinforcing colour identification.
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Big Problem or Little Problem? – Sorting Activity
A sorting activity for students to place situations in order from the littlest problem to the biggest problem.
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Above and Below the Line Behaviours – Sorting Activity
Remind students of behaviours that are 'above the line,' 'below the line,' and 'bottom-line' with this sorting activity.
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Thumbs Up and Thumbs Down Classroom Expectations Sort
Review appropriate classroom behaviours with this sorting activity.
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1-100 Number Chart - Sequencing Activity
Count by 1’s with your primary students by arranging number tiles 1-100.
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Wee Willie Winkie Nursery Rhyme - Rhyme Page and Sorting Activity
Wee Willie Winkie – Printable shared poetry, sentence and word rebuilding activities.
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Jack Be Nimble Nursery Rhyme - Rhyme Page and Sorting Activity
Jack Be Nimble – Printable shared poetry, sentence and word rebuilding activities.
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Forms of Government – Flashcards and Sorting Activity
A set of flashcards for students to review the various forms of government and sort them into categories.
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Main Idea or Supporting Detail? – Sorting Activity
An activity for students to determine which of 2 related facts is a main idea and which is a supporting detail.
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Consonant Blends Beehive Sorting Activity
A set of 12 beehives with corresponding bee word cards for the consonant blends – fl, tr, br, cr, fr, cl, dr, sl, st, bl, gl, sc.
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Selecting Units of Capacity - Sorting Activity
A sorting activity to help students identify containers that should be measured in millilitres and litres.
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Selecting Units of Mass – Sorting Activity
A sorting activity to help students identify objects that should be measured in grams, kilograms and tonnes.
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Selecting Units of Length - Sorting Activity
A sorting activity to help students identify lengths and distances that should be measured in millimetres, centimetres, metres and kilometres.
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Introduction to Hardware and Software Sorting Activity
Guide students in understanding the difference between hardware and software with this cut and sort activity.
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Identifying Colours - Sorting Activity
A fun sorting game for students to play when learning the primary and secondary colours.
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Old vs New Communication Devices - Sorting Activity
A fun sorting activity for students to identify old and new communication devices.
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Transport Time Machine - Past and Present Transport Sorting Activity
A fun sorting game for students to identify past modes of transport from the present.
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Alien Grab - Toy Sorting Activity
A fun sorting activity to identify toys from other everyday objects.
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How Long Does It Take? – Sorting Activity
An activity with 18 daily events that can be sorted depending on how long they take to occur.
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What's in a Colour? Sorting Activity
A fun sorting activity for students to explore interpretation of colour in visual art.
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Beginning Sounds Sorting Activity
Practise identifying beginning sounds of words by sorting this set of 24 picture cards.
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Word Family Sorting Activity – Set 4
A sorting activity to practice word families.
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Word Family Sorting Activity – Set 3
A sorting activity using word families.