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- Comparing & contrasting real & make-believe bears
- Student pairs create a Venn Diagram in their Bear Research Journal listing things that are the same and different about real and make-believe bears.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 1 Mathematics)
- By Susan Lovett.
- Comparing and contrasting careers
- In CareerStart lessons: Grade six, page 1.9
- This lesson for grade six will help students understand comparing and contrasting. Students will conduct career surveys with adults and will use the results to create Venn diagrams.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6–8 English Language Arts and Guidance)
- By Jennifer Brookshire and Julie McCann.
- Introduction to Venn diagrams
- Students will learn how to use a Venn diagram to categorize data. This activity is done as an introduction to Venn diagrams.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 5 Mathematics)
- By Melissa Bancroft.
- Comparing/contrasting characters: A Taste of Blackberries
- This lesson is designed to use with Chapter 1 of the novel A Taste of Blackberries. Students will use a Venn Diagram to compare and contrast the two main characters and then relate the material to their own lives.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 English Language Arts)
- By Denise Caudle.
- Comparing and contrasting Little Red Riding Hood stories
- This lesson will introduce the Venn diagram to students. They will read two versions of the story "Little Red Riding Hood" and list details from each in separate diagrams.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3 English Language Arts)
- By Amber Miller.
- Is it a duck? Is it a chick?
- Students will compare and contrast the characteristics of a chick and a duckling by using a Venn Diagram.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K English Language Arts, Mathematics, and Science)
- By Debbie Beeson.
- Three Billy Goats Gruff
- Students will examine language in three different versions of the traditional "Gruff" tale. These will be compared and contrasted through Venn diagrams. Each text will be introduced, examined, and contrasted in a different lesson.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 1 English Language Arts)
- By Sandra Doyle.
- Using Venn diagrams to compare and contrast
- In order to be able to compare and contrast weather in other places around the country and the world, the students will learn how to use a graphic organizer (Venn diagram) to visualize likeness and differences between two things.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 2 English Language Arts and Science)
- By Kelly Sharpe, Kathleen Hughes, Ruffin Priest, Sondra Walker, and Sandra McKee.
- Hula hoop sorting
- Students will use two large hula hoops to form a Venn Diagram. Then, using various colored paper shapes, they will recognize, and identify circles, squares, triangles, rectangles, hexagons, trapezoids, and parallelograms.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 1 Mathematics)
- By Diane Jackson.
- Los dos reyes y los dos laberintos
- This lesson focuses on the short story "Los dos reyes y los dos laberintos" written by Jorge Luis Borges. Students interpret the work through reading and group activities. The students will show their interpretation of the theme of the story through a written essay.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 Second Languages)
- By Sandra Sigmon.
- North Carolina American Indian stories
- In this lesson students will select and read stories from some of the North Carolina American Indian tribes. They will compare and contrast two stories of their choice and complete a Venn diagram. Students will use the information on the Venn diagram to write three paragraphs. After reading several American Indian tales or legends, students will then create their own legend using the narrative writing process.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4 English Language Arts and Social Studies)
- By Janice Gardner.
- Using a Venn diagram to compare & contrast two types of bears
- Students use their research on black bears and one other bear (panda, polar or grizzly) to complete a Venn Diagram.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 1 Mathematics)
- By Susan Lovett.
- Children and families in North Carolina
- In this lesson plan, elementary students will analyze photographs of children from North Carolina provided by the Green ‘N’ Growing collection from the Special Collections Research Center at North Carolina State University. They will investigate how individuals and families are similar and different, and to begin to acquire an understanding of change over time.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 Social Studies)
- By Pauline S. Johnson.
- Adjectives: Hero versus Villain
- Students will compare and contrast a hero and a villain through a variety of oral and written activities.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 Second Languages)
- By Rebecca Watkins.
- Researching the North Carolina coastal plain
- This lesson plan will provide students with a more in-depth knowledge of the animals, industry, and land geography of the coastal plain. Students will conduct research on the internet and in other resources to find information on the vital parts of the coastal plain. The lesson culminates with group presentations of their research and a Venn diagram developed individually comparing the outer and inner parts of the coastal plain.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4 English Language Development, Science, and Social Studies)
- By Ana Sanders and Heather Ennis.
- Higher order thinking with Venn diagrams
- Graphic organizers are powerful ways to help students understand complex ideas. By adapting and building on basic Venn diagrams, you can move beyond comparison and diagram classification systems that encourage students to recognize complex relationships.
- Format: article/best practice
- By David Walbert.
- Slavery and bias in historic West Africa: A case of he said, he said
- In this lesson, students will examine three primary source documents concerning West African history, and will work to discover the similarities and differences between the documents. Students will discover the biases revealed by the authors of the documents.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Social Studies)
- By Shane Freeman.
- Fairy tales: Another point of view
- This lesson is on comparing and contrasting (alike and different) two different versions of The Three Little Pigs. Students will use the original fairy tale The Three Little Pigs previously learned in the lesson Fairy Tales and compare it to the story The True Story of the Three Little Pigs. This story gives the wolf's point of view.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 1 English Language Arts, English Language Development, and Theater Arts Education)
- By Audra Penrod and Vivian Lages.
- Inside and outside: Paradox of the box
- This lesson serves to introduce students to symbolism (the box), to the literary element paradox, and to the abstract notion of ambiguity (freedom vs. confinement). It is designed for 2nd and 3rd graders, but may be adapted for use with upper elementary or early middle school grades.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 2–3 English Language Arts)
- By Edie McDowell.
- CareerStart lessons: Grade six
- This collection of lessons aligns the sixth grade curriculum in math, science, English language arts, and social studies with potential career opportunities.
- Format: (multiple pages)
