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." 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.

You try

Here are the categories:

500s = nature science
700s = fun activities
900s = social studies

Where would you put these cards?

1. You have to find out when dinosaurs lived.
2. You want to learn how to do some skateboarding tricks.
3. You are planning a trip to Hawaii.
4. You want to draw the flags of all the countries your great-grandparents came from.
5. You need to do a report on hurricanes.
6. You got a digital camera for your birthday and want to learn more about how to use it.
7. You want to find information on some famous paintings.

Answers are in the comments.

* Original lesson idea from Anne Oelke via LMNet.