medium beak lengths to future evolution of this green survive best: species if: a) the grass remains green b) the grass turns yellow. Equipment: packets of differently coloured pasta, must contain green pasta pieces as well as other colours (500 g per 4–5 students) (you could use buttons of different colours instead but these are not biodegradable), forceps or tongs, stop watch, pot to collect pasta shapes in, area of grass CB4c B4.7 Describe how genetic 1) Ask students to Ask students to sort Take students through Classification analysis has led to the suggest how a visitor to themselves into two groups the classification of suggestion of the three the area might be able to and then think of another way several plants and domains rather than the five find an individual student of dividing themselves into two animals, showing how kingdoms classification in a school. Give groups or more groups. This process the number of method of students 5 minutes to can be repeated a number of organisms in each come up with a plan of times. Ask students to explain group gets smaller and how the visitor would do their reasoning behind their smaller and how the this. The groups for a classification systems each similarities between the student might be: school time and suggest which organisms increase. Ask > year group > form > system was the best and why. students to suggest workgroup > individual. Elicit the idea that scientists other members of the group organisms into large groups as you work 2) Show students a groups based on differences through the
medium beak lengths to survive best: future evolution of this green species if: a) the grass remains green b) the grass turns yellow. Equipment: packets of differently coloured pasta, must contain green pasta pieces as well as other colours (500 g per 4–5 students) (you could use buttons of different colours instead but these are not biodegradable), forceps or tongs, stop watch, pot to collect pasta shapes in, area of grass CB4c Classification B4.7 Describe how genetic analysis has led to the suggestion of the three domains rather than the five kingdoms classification method 1) Ask students to suggest how a visitor to the area might be able to find an individual student in a school. Give groups of students 5 minutes to come up with a plan of how the visitor would do this. The groups for a student might be: school > year group > form > workgroup > individual. 2) Show students a Ask students to sort themselves into two groups and then think of another way of dividing themselves into two or more groups. This process can be repeated a number of times. Ask students to explain their reasoning behind their classification systems each time and suggest which system was the best and why. Elicit the idea that scientists group organisms into large groups based on differences Take students through the classification of several plants and animals, showing how the number of organisms in each group gets smaller and smaller and how the similarities between the organisms increase. Ask students to suggest other members of the groups as you work through the
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