Same and different

Choose 2 pictures and explain one way they are the same and one way they are different

Activity

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Target

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Abstract

Choose two pictures of objects and explain one way in which the two pictures are the same, for example they are both toys, and one way in which they are different, for example, this one is used outside and this one is used inside.

Contributor Rhiannan Walton

method

Directions

Have a selection of pictures of objects spread out face down on the table.

Each child chooses two pictures and explains to the group one way in which the objects pictured are the same, and one way in which they are different.

For example, if the two pictures were of a pair of scissors and a glue stick. A child could say: “both of them are found in a classroom. But you cut with scissors and join things together with glue.” If the items are not so semantically related, the children may need to be more inventive with their responses.

Ask the other group members if they have more ideas about how the items are the same and different, before moving on to the next child, who has chooses two different pictures.