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Science topics ages 6 - 7
Variation
Curriculum relevance
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Objectives
Sort living things into groups using features and describe the basis for these groupings
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National Curriculum
England: Key Stage 1, Science, Sc1 1, 2a, 2b, 2f, 2h, 2j; Sc2 2a, 4a, 4b
Wales: Key Stage 1, Life processes and living things, 4.2
Northern Ireland: Key Stage 1, Living things, Ourselves b, d
Scotland: 5-14 Guidelines, Science, Variety and characteristic features, Level A
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Resources required
Leaves, pictures of animals, plastic classroom animals
Four large pieces of sugar paper and four fat pens for scribing
Blu-tack, glue, sticky tape
Copies of the Variation worksheet printed from the Science Clips website
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Teaching activities
Introduction
Sit the children in a large circle. Place three different leaves, two pictures of animals and a toy animal in the middle of the circle. Demonstrate to the children how to sort the things into two piles: animals and leaves. Go on to show how to sort the leaves further according to their colour or shape. In talk partners, ask the children to discuss different ways to further sort the animals (e.g. feathers, fur, number of legs). Ask them to share their ideas with the rest of the class.
Activities
Divide the children into four mixed ability groups. Give two of the groups a selection of leaves. Give the other two groups some pictures of animals and some plastic animals (including humans and birds and fish). Ask each group to work together to experiment with different ways of sorting the things in front of them. After ten minutes, hand each group a large sheet of sugar paper, labels, and pens. Ask the groups to choose just one of their ways of sorting to record on the sugar paper. Help one child in each group as scribe to write the labels e.g. two legs, four legs, no legs. The children then use glue to stick the leaves, and Blu-tack or sticky tape to stick the toy animals and pictures under the appropriate heading on their sheet.
Plenary
Each group shows their work to the rest of the class. Talk about the fact that some groups will have one section that is much fuller than the other. Why is this? Did they come across any problems and how did they solve them? Were there any objects that could fit into more than one section? If so what did they do with them?
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Extension
Hand out copies of the Variation worksheet. Ask children to fill in the names of animals into the appropriate spaces.
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Suggested homework
Ask the children to invent an imaginary animal and to describe some of its features. For example, it has four legs, wings and pointed ears, it breathes under water, eats insects and is covered in fur!
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