A big part of information literacy is being able to recognize patterns and to categorize facts, sources, etc. We're starting to work on these skills in first grade.
After the students figured out which one thing didn't belong in a collection of objects I had brought in, they each got a card with a colored shape and had to find at least one other person whose card was the same in one way:
The next week, we watched some
Sesame Street videos and then the kids worked on their own "Three of these things" artwork. Here are some examples ... can you tell which doesn't belong??
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| Hint: Look at the eyes! |
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| Those are bats using echolocation (well, three of them are). |
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| Only one of these cats is domesticated! |
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