Observe, sort, and group living things based on external features with an Interactive Plant and Animal Sorting Game.
Drag, Drop, and Sort With An Interactive Plant and Animal Sorting Game
Make science hands-on and interactive with Teach Starter! This Google Slides / PowerPoint Plant and Animal Sorting Game is designed for Kindergarten and Grade 1 learners to practice observing and grouping living things based on their external features.
With bright visuals and simple sorting tasks, this Plant and Animal Sorting Game encourages students to build early science classification skills as they manipulate images of plants and animals on-screen.
Drag-and-Drop Sorting Activity for Grouping Living Things
This interactive drag-and-drop Sorting Activity for Grouping Living Things features 12 slides featuring movable images of animals and plants that students drag and sort into groups based on observable features such as:
- body coverings (fur, feathers, scales, skin)
- Body parts (wings, legs, flippers)
- plant parts (leaves, flowers, stems, roots)
Each slide focuses on a single sorting rule, making it easy for young learners to understand the task.
This resource is designed to run in EDIT mode, not presentation mode.
Download and Use This Living Things Sorting Activity
This Living Things Sorting Activity is available in Google Slides and PowerPoint formats, giving you flexibility across devices and platforms. Simply open, project and let students start sorting.
To get your copy, click the dropdown arrow on the download button and choose between the Google Slides and PowerPoint resource files.
This resource was created by Lindsey Phillips, a teacher in Michigan and Teach Starter Collaborator.
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