Class Pet (Grades 1-3)

Blog by Kristanna (grade 3):
"Today we talked about which class pet we should get, and put sticky notes with animals on them. We divided them into interesting, boring, safe, and dangerous boxes."

Students wrote 5 possible class pets on sticky notes and put them on an x-axis ranging from dangerous to safe.

The positive-positive quadrant was the top right. Animals should be chosen from this box. Bottom left was negative-negative. These animals wouldn't be considered. They could also be sorted by other criteria: expense, size, friendly...

"I think we should get two guinea pigs because they are interesting and cute, and I have two of my own. They are kind of expensive." - Kristanna 
Other objects could be sorted too, like books.

After we stepped back, we noticed that kids usually like to pick interesting books to talk about, not boring ones.