Card Sort
categorizing, organizing, affinity grouping, sorting
What is card sorting?
Educator makes the cards; students sort the cards.
Educator may choose to advise categories for sorting
Knows and need-to-knows
True, false, I don’t know
- Other categories
More to Explore
How to do a Card Sort - TeachLikeThis
See Card Sorting in 3 Different Classrooms
You can watch an elementary example as well as a secondary history and math example here!
Ideas for Application
English/Language Arts:
- matching character traits to characters
- sorting parts of speech
Science:
- classifying species
- classifying traits of elements
Languages Other than English:
- sorting verbs into tenses
- categorizing vocabulary words into parts of speech
Physical Education:
- differentitating aerobic versus anaerobic movement