Grouping organisms - Living things & habitats - Year 4 science - KS2

This lesson sequence encourages pupils to:

• Consider different ways to group organisms
• Use a venn diagram to group organisms
• Find out who Carl Linnaeus was and why he is important
• Learn about the Linnaean system of classification for animals
• Learn how vertebrates are grouped
• Learn how invertebrates are grouped

The resources included are:

• 5 lists of organisms (10 per list, grouped to enable scientific thinking regarding how to group the organisms in each list)
• Worksheet pg1, beginning with simple recall tasks to do with Carl Linnaeus, as well as identifying vertebrates/invertebrates and their subgroups (i.e. mammals, reptiles, crustaceans etc)
• Worksheet pg 2, encouraging pupils to use their knowledge of the characteristics of different groups to create their own vertebrate and invertebrate. Also, an extension task asking pupils to research the differences between 2 similar species (i.e. bees and wasps)
• Templates for venn diagrams (A single circled venn and a double circled venn)

A great introduction to the living things and habitats topic for pupils.

Tags - Year 3 Year 4 year 5 Year 6 KS2 science