Venn Diagrams

Last Wednesday I taught a lesson to my kindergarten class using a Venn Diagram. I introduced the class to the Venn Diagram and asked them to look around the room to see if they could find others. One student shouted out that he found one. It was a poster of word families and each family was seperated using Venn Diagrams. The lesson went really well and my teacher said she learned something from me. For my Venn Diagram I wrote George Washington on one side using a red marker and inside I wrote the word different using the same color. On the other side I wrote Abe Lincoln using a green marker and in his side I wrote the word different in green. In the middle where the two connected using both markers I alternated colors and wrote the word "same". The class had to tell me something they learned about one of the presidents and tell me if it went in the different circle or the same circle. My teacher said that after 30 years of teaching she has never thought to use different colors. Needless to say I was very proud.