The Dewey Decimal system is a way of sorting nonfiction books. I don't expect my students to memorize specific numbers; that's what the online catalog is for. I do, however, want them to understand how certain topics go together. At least according to how Mr. Dewey thought they did.
Second graders each got a search term and a number from a "hundreds." They had to work with kids who had the same number to figure out how their subjects could be classified under one major label.
Can you solve the puzzles?
- 500s: planets, electricity, magnets, elements, weather, rocks, dinosaurs, bugs, ecosystems, plants, animals
- 700s: music, jokes, origami, drawing, magic tricks, football, chess, yoga, knitting, dance
- 900s: maps, ancient civilizations, countries, states, wars, explorers, The Titanic disaster, flags, American colonies
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