A sorting activity to help students identify the natural and human features of environments.
Natural or Man-made? Sorting Activity
Are you looking for a fun and engaging way to teach your students about natural and manmade features in the environment? Look no further than our printable sorting activity! With colourful images and easy-to-follow instructions, this activity will have your students identifying and categorizing various features in no time. Whether you’re teaching science or social studies or simply looking for an interactive activity, our sorting activity is the perfect addition to your lesson plan.
Man-Made and Natural Features Lesson Materials
Use this resource to fill out those environmental lesson plans. In this activity, students are provided with a set of 24 cut-and-sort picture cards featuring a range of natural and man-made features. Students will sort these objects into two categories to demonstrate whether the resources and features shown are manmade or natural features.
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Hi. Great resource but prints with a grid. Not sure how to remove grid.
Hi Susan, the first 1-2 pages of each version (coloured and black & white) have grids on the pages. If you're finding that the last page also has grids, could we get you to reach out to our support team via the chat icon at the bottom of the page? Thanks and have a great day!
Kelly's suggestion is great. It would be better if the features were mixed up so the students can sort them. Can this resource be differentiated to allow this?
Hi, thank you for your comment. We have mixed up the cards and they are available to download again now. Thanks again for your suggestion.
My students loved these. It would be even better if the features were mixed up - so they had to sort them out even more (some of my super clever ones figured out all the natural features were on one page and the human features were on the other page! :)
Hi there Kelly. I'm glad your students enjoyed this activity. That's a good suggestion about mixing up the features... the clever ones do seem to find shortcuts, don't they!
It would be fantastic to have a resource like this for Natural, Constructed and Managed environments for year 2 students. Thanks, Annaliese
Hi Annaliese, Thank you for your positive feedback. If you would like us to create this resource for you, you can formally request this here: https://www.teachstarter.com/request-a-resource/ Kind regards, Steph