Grade 4 Dewey Matching Game*

As a follow-up to our last lesson, when fourth-graders figured out Dewey Decimal System categories, this week they assigned a stack of topics to those categories. Each table got a set of "playing cards" that they had to place in the correct area of their "game board." Some of the cards were kind of tricky ... you could make the case for a certain subject to be in more than one Dewey category. So long as the students could explain their thinking, they got full credit.

700s are fun activities (aka Arts and Recreation)

900s are social studies (aka history and geography). Folk songs would be under music in the 700s.
However, this team explained that they thought folk songs were about culture,
which is social studies, which is 900s. Full credit for using their brains!

Here are the teams at work. I am happy to report that everyone participated fully, as the photos illustrate:

Double-checking the category labels posted at the front of the room.

 

 

* Original lesson idea from Anne Oelke via LMNet.