Year 6 · Science · Classifying living things · Lesson 1

Grouping living things

Classifying living things: vertebrates and their five groups, invertebrate groups, flowering and non-flowering plants, fungi and micro-organisms, and Carl Linnaeus.

13-minute video lesson

Teaching, worked examples and 20 practice questions solved step by step.

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What your child will learn

Explain classification
Classify vertebrates into five groups
Name invertebrate groups
Describe micro-organisms

The method

Backbone?
Skin covering.
Breathing and young.
Group + reason.

Key words: classification, vertebrate, invertebrate, mammal, micro-organism, Linnaeus.

Worked examples

The first three practice questions from the lesson, with every step.

Question 1

What is classification?

Step 1: Sorting

Answer: sorting living things into groups by features

Question 2

Who created the classification naming system?

Step 1: Carl...

Answer: Carl Linnaeus

Question 3

What does a vertebrate have?

Step 1: Back...

Answer: a backbone