1. BTEC FIRST 10 October 2008
Classify this
(don’t eat the sweets)
It feels like a long time since we quot;The moment we want to believe
looked at classification so before we go something, we suddenly see all the
to Hackney City Farm it would be a arguments for it, and become blind
good idea to refresh our minds on how to the arguments against it.quot;
classification works
George Bernard Shaw
What you need to do
more important when it comes to
Task one classification.
Classification of the Sweet Kingdom. In
your groups you will be given a set of You will be told which side you will be
sweets in a tub (don’t eat them!). These for in the discussion. The two options
sweets all have some characteristics in are:
common with each other, and some
characteristics that are different.
1. The differences between organisms
are more important.
Your first task is to create a key that 2. The similarities between organisms
separates out all of the sweets into are more important.
individual types. You can work in small
groups to do this and it should take no
One thing I would like you to think
more than 15 minutes. about as well before Mondays lesson is
Why classification is important. Can
Task two you come up with one reason why we
On Monday we will have a group need to classify organisms?
discussion about the importance of
classification. Why do we classify and You can bring notes to the discussion
is it the things we have in common that with you.
are important or are the differences
What is important
about
classification? Are
the things in
common important?
Are the differences
between them
important? Can you
think of any good
reasons to classify
organisms? Why do
we classify?
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