Science 3rd grade | UNIT 3: Living things 3.5 Sorting living things
Scientists who study living things need to be able to group them.
Help the zookeeper sort the animals into the correct group.
Look at these pictures.
Talk to a friend about how you could sort these living things.
Describe the things that are similar about the things in your groups.
Juma has collected these small animals. Suggest groups he can put them in.
Suggest a question that he could use to sort the animals.
Activity 3.5 (Sorting leaves)
You will need: a selection of different leaves - hoops labels for groups
Sort your leaves into groups.
Put each group into a hoop.
Label each group.
Could you have sorted the leaves in a different way?
Questions
1) How many groups of animals and plants do you know? What are they?
2) Why do scientists need to group animals?
3) Why might you group a lion and a wolf together?