Carl Linnaeus

This is a lesson that I did with my year 6 class about the famous scientist Carl Linnaeus.
-The lesson begins by asking why sorting and grouping is so important.
-It gives background information on Linnaeus and his fascination with classifying living things and why he was so interested in doing this.
-It explains why his classification method was so necessary and important.
-It explains his two-word Latin classifying method of giving every living thing a GENUS and a SPECIES (two-part Latin name) based on its characteristics
-It explains that he documented all his findings in his book SYSTEMA NATURA

The children write a diary entry that describes Linnaeus’ classification method. There are sentence starters for them to use. I planned this lesson to also use as potential writing moderation evidence hence the focus on writing.