Wordling Dewey - 4G

Have you ever used Wordle? It's a neat Web program that takes words and creates a colorful collage with them; words that you enter more frequently have more prominence.

We're using it with Grade 4 as we try and figure out how Melvil Dewey divided up all of the world's knowledge into 10 main categories.

This week, 4G explored the shelves, selecting a variety of books on different topics from their assigned 100s ... and then tried to figure out just what their category was. We entered some of the topics into Wordle. As you can see below, some Dewey categories are a lot easier to figure out than others.