The document provides guidelines on comparing and contrasting items using oranges and bananas as examples. It introduces the double bubble map as a tool for organizing similarities and differences. Finally, it encourages the reader to apply the compare and contrast method to various pairs, such as basketball and football or summer and winter.

1. Compare and Contrast
Compare and Contrast
Same and Different
Same and Different

2. Compare
tell what is the same about
two or more things

3. Oranges and
Bananas
You eat both of them.
They are both fruits.
You have to peel both of them.

4. Contrast
tell what is different about
two or more things

5. Oranges and
Bananas
Oranges are orange. Bananas are yellow.
Oranges are round. Bananas are long.
Oranges have seeds. Bananas don’t have seeds.

6. Double Bubble Maps
• It is a great way to organize your
thoughts when you are comparing and
contrasting two things.
• In the middle you put how the two
objects are alike.
• On the sides you put how the objects
are different.

7. Organizing Your Bubble
Map
•have seeds
•orange
•round
•fruit
•can eat it
•have to
peel it
•yellow
•long
•doesn’t have
seeds

8. What can we compare
and contrast?
• Books
• People
• Objects
• Animals
• Places
• Music
• Events

9. Review
• Compare = same
• Contrast = different
• Organize ideas using a double bubble
map

10. Now it’s your turn!!!
Choose one of the pairs below to
compare and contrast on your own.
 basketball and football (two sports)
 summer and winter (two seasons)
 teacher and student (two people)
 fork and spoon (two objects)