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." (Many thanks to Judy Ouellette for cutting the cards out!)

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. Here are the teams at work:

 These two got EVERY SINGLE CARD put into the correct category -
the first team to achieve a perfect score in my four years of teaching!