English National Curriculum - Science Science
Mission Objectives
Explain how living things are classified by designing their own chart and comparing their size
Describe how to classify a range of living animals and plants
Identify ways to differentiate living things
Enquiry Approach - Identifying, grouping & classifying
Using observations, data and findings to name, label and organise items in a variety of ways.
Enquiry Skill - Recording data, results and findings
Using tables, a variety of graphs, labelled diagrams and models to record observations, measurements, results and findings.
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Words and meanings to learn
process of elimination
analysing and removing options until just one is left
living organism
something that can move, use energy and reproduce
characteristic
a feature or quality belonging to a species, as a way to identify them
classify
to organise into categories, according to shared characteristics
taxonomy
the branch of science which involves classification
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Resources: Class presentation, liquorice allsorts, A3 paper and pens.
Core Handout (2): A classification key for the children to fill in with the results from the liquorice allsorts activity.
Stretch Handout (3): The rocket thinking activity and presentation slides modelled classification using organisms from an ocean habitat. Ask the children to pick a different habitat (such as the rainforest, desert, arctic or woodland). Ask them to pick from 5 organisms from that habitat and create their own classification key using those organisms.
Challenge Handout (4): Questions for the children to answer about why classification is important.
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