Classifying and organising living things using images

Teaching approach. This lesson offers opportunities to explore ways to classify living things as well as characteristics which might be relevant, and how to address difficulties that may arise when trying to classify things in this way. The activity may be enhanced by the use of ICT⁽ⁱ⁾ software (e.g. Picasa) but could be carried out with paper-based resources.

This lesson presents a good opportunity for small group work^(ta) and some inquiry^(ta) into how we classify; and why some classification methods might be more useful, or more scientifically interesting than others. There is also a good opportunity to use different sorts of questioning^(ta); to encourage pupils to question each other; to engage in peer assessment^(ta) and to focus discussion^(ta) on the scientific method^(ta) using key vocabulary^(ta).

Resource details
Title	Classifying and organising living things using images
Topic	[[Topics/Living things|Living things]],  [[Topics/Using images|Using images]]
Teaching approach	[[Teaching Approaches/Assessment|Assessment]],  [[Teaching Approaches/Questioning|Questioning]],  [[Teaching Approaches/Language|Language]],  [[Teaching Approaches/Group work|Group work]],  [[Teaching Approaches/Inquiry|Inquiry]],  [[Teaching Approaches/Discussion|Discussion]],  [[Teaching Approaches/Scientific method|Scientific method]]
Learning Objectives	To have experience of and develop confidence with the different ways in which living things can be classified into groups To develop knowledge of and use some of the characteristics of living things and ways to classify and organise them.
Subject	[[Resources/Science|Science]]
Age of students / grade	[[Resources/Primary|Primary]]
Related ORBIT Wiki Resources	Organising images for a narrative
Files and resources to view and download	Activity Outine: Classifying and organising living things using images/activity Bank of Sample Images File:Images of Living Things.zip Living Things: http://www.4freephotos.com/44557d3930b7f3ebf705a9d04dcd5dcb-lightbox.html Images from http://www.4freephotos.com - available under CC-By http://www.4freephotos.com/terms.php#image_license alternative images for future refrence http://www.princetonol.com/groups/iad/links/clipart.html Extension to Astronomy images: Second activity is more an annotation or show and tell one with a set of astronomy images that studenst could annotate, label (with tablet) or organise Astro: http://www.4freephotos.com/1e381a3704dcf5152cd7878e286fdf45-lightbox.html File:Astronomy Images.zip