Categories: Upper/Middle School

Name that Category

100

What category defines all these words?

• doctor
• landscaper
• architect
• butcher
• accountant
• teacher

What is Career (Job/Occupation)? 

200

What category defines all these words?

• spain
• england
• france
• bahamas
• belgium
• south africa

What is Country?

300

What category do all these words belong to?

• chicago
• new york
• philadelphia
• dc
• orlando
• houston

What is City?

400

What part of speech category defines all these words:

• old
• peaceful
• pink
• polite
• poor
• precious

What is Adjective?

500

What part of speech category defines all these words:

• run
• play
• chat
• ride
• sleep
• eat

What is verb?

Guess a Word

100

List 5 words that belong to a category of hobbies.

• reading
• blogging
• dancing
• singing
• shopping
• traveling
• hiking
• cycling
• exercising
• drawing
• painting
• cooking
• baking
• gardening
• sewing
• fishing
• photography
• skydiving
• skating
• surfing

200

List 5 words that belong to a category of verbs.

• to be
• to have
• to do
• to say
• to go
• to get
• to make
• to drink
• to think
• to take
• to see
• to come
• to want
• to look
• to use
• to find
• to give
• to tell
• to try
• to call

300

List 3 words that belong to a category of nouns. 

• helicopter
• helmet
• honey
• horse
• hospital
• house
• ice
• insect
• iron
• island
• jelly
• juice
• magazine
• market
• motorcycle
• nail
• raincoat
• plastic
• planet
• parrot

400

List 5 words that belong to a category of states in the United States.

• washington
• oregon
• idaho
• montana
• wyoming
• california
• nevada
• utah
• colorado
• new mexico
• arizona
• north dakota
• south dakota
• nebraska
• kansas
• oklahoma
• texas
• minnesota
• iowa
• missouri

500

List 5 things that grow.

• plants
• humans
• animals
• berries
• flowers
• grass
• tulip
• carrots
• cactus
• tomatoes
• peony
• rose
• sunflower
• trees
• bamboo
• fern
• moss
• bunnies
• dogs
• lettuce

Name that Category

100

What is the category for all these words:

• frodo baggins
• the little prince
• belle
• harry potter
• voldemort
• snow white
• cinderella
• aurora
• rapunzel
• mulan
• ariel
• moana
• tinkerbell
• prince caspian
• prince eric
• prince hamlet
• prince naveen
• prince edmund
• flynn
• han solo

What is fictional characters?

200

Name the category for these words:

• throat
• lungs
• heart
• brain
• liver
• spleen
• bladder
• small intestine
• large intestine
• muscle
• stomach
• kidneys
• pancreas
• gallbladder
• nasal cavity
• tongue
• thyroid
• skin
• tonsils
• diaphragm

What is organs?

300

What is the category for these words?

• laptop
• tablet
• gps
• virtual reality
• google
• youtube
• robots
• bluetooth
• wifi
• 5g
• security camera
• iphone
• android
• live streaming
• airfrier
• smart plugs
• ring doorbell
• nest thermostat
• robot vacuum
• artificial intelligence

What is technology?

400

What is the category for these words?

• rock
• reggae
• electro
• bossa nova
• alternative
• surf
• boogie
• sonata
• punk
• techno
• samba
• gospel
• disco
• trance
• blues
• pop
• soul
• rock
• chamber
• metal

What is music genres? 

500

What is the category for these words?

• action
• comedy
• drama
• fantasy
• horror
• mystery
• romance
• thriller
• western
• crime thriller
• martial arts
• spy action
• parody comedy
• zombie horror
• folk horror
• space travel
• time travel
• romantic drama
• syfi
• slapstick comedy

What is movie genres?

Which Category Am I?

100

Which category does Pentagon belong to? 

A. Shapes

B. Names

C. School Subjects

A. Shapes 

200

What category goes with Ketchup?

A. Color

B. Condiment

C. Dessert

B. Condiment

300

Name the category for Spoon.

A. Food

B. Kitchen Utensil

C. Weapon

B. Kitchen Utensil

400

Name the category for dog.

A. Mammal

B. Bird

C. Reptile

A. Mammal

500

If you want to take a biology class, which category should you look under?

A. Science

B. Language

C. Math

A. Science