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Students will classify random animals based on each animal's attributes. They will get to investigate the physical characteristics of each animal during this hands-on sorting activity. Students will strengthen their ability to categorize and classify. 

This is a tool for organizing a student's daily assignments, by core subject for the week. Allows instructor to indicate completion, see cascade of instruction and creates a record of assignments. In this use, each student was issued a clipboard with this sheet on it and carried it from class to class. This document was helpful during the COVID closure because it was familiar to the students and could be filled out and uploaded to LMS platform.