In Science this week, Year 1 have continued to look at animals (including humans). This week our enquiry was ‘Why are animals grouped in different ways?’

First of all we looked at the ways we could group different animals as a class.

The children were each given an animal to compare and contrast. The children looked closely at the features of the animals and then grouped them together based on their characteristics.

Here is what some of the children discovered:

“Those animals all have wings and feathers so they must all be birds.”

“They all have hair or fur so they must be mammals.”

 

The children then had a go at sorting the different animals independently.