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Classifying Candy III
Task with Student Directions
Contributed by: New York State Alternative Assessment in Science Project

Task: At this station, you will be creating a classification tree.

Materials:

  • Candy bag
  • Candy tree- test card

Directions:
A. Place all of the candy on the Candy Tree in the box labeled Place Candy Here.
B. Using the Candy Tree as your guide, divide all the candies into two (2) groups, group 1 and group 2.
C. All of the candies group 1 must have the same property and all of the candies in group 2 must have the same property.
D. Use all the candy.

Questions

  1. What property does the candy in group 1 have?

    ____________________________________________________________________

  2. What property does the candy in group 2 have? ____________________________________________________________________

E. Using the Candy Tree as your guide, divide groups 1 and 2 into four (4) new groups, A, B, C, and D so that all of the candies in each group have the same property.
F. Use all the candies.

Questions

  1. What property does the candy in group A have? ____________________________________________________________________

  2. What property does the candy in group B have? ____________________________________________________________________

  3. What property does the candy in group C have? ____________________________________________________________________

  4. What property does the candy in group D have? ____________________________________________________________________

G. Using the Candy Tree as your guide, divide groups A, B, C, and D into eight (8) more groups, #1 - #8, so that all of the candies in each group have the same properties.
H. Use all the candies.

  1. What property does the candy in group #1 have? ____________________________________________________________________

  2. What property does the candy in group #2 have? ____________________________________________________________________

  3. What property does the candy in group #3 have? ____________________________________________________________________

  4. What property does the candy in group #4 have? ____________________________________________________________________

  5. What property does the candy in group #5 have? ____________________________________________________________________

  6. What property does the candy in group #6 have? ____________________________________________________________________

  7. What property does the candy in group #7 have? ____________________________________________________________________

  8. What property does the candy in group #8 have? ____________________________________________________________________

NYS Alternative Assessment in Science Project
NSF Grant #MDR-9154506
Copyright, April 1996
The State University of New York
The State Education Department
Albany, New York 12234

 


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