Living Things & their Habitats
Let’s Play ‘Guess the Invertebrate’
Am I an insect, a myriapod, a mollusc, an annelid or an arachnid? The children had great fun using their developing knowledge of invertebrates, asking and answering questions in order to guess their identity.
Sorting and using dichotomous keys to identify invertebrates
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The Classification of Living Things
We have been exploring simple branching databases as a means of sorting and classifying living things.
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Exploring our School Habitat
We spent a glorious afternoon out and about in our school grounds, gathering samples of the living things we share a space with. We took photos, made notes, drew sketches and collected samples as records of our explorations.
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