St Michael's C
of E Primary SchoolInvestigative Scientists
In Year Six, children learned about identifying the kingdoms of life, classified living things within these kingdoms and were introduced to the Linnaean System of classification.
- Can you name the six kingdoms of life?
- What does the acronym MRS GREN stand for?
- Who was Carl Linnaeus?
The children started off with grouping/classifying liquorice. The temptation to pop one into their mouth was great but they overcame it. This task enabled the children to understand how classification of living things worked.
Liquorice Classification
A lot of research was carried out.
Classification Research
Here are some examples of the children’s work.
Classification Book Examples
The investigative scientists carried various other investigation such as - what condition encourage mould growth on bread and spore dispersal from mushrooms. Here are the highlights from the spore dispersal investigation. Set A mushrooms were suspended approximately 2cm above a plain white sheet of paper...
Mushrooms - Set A
... whereas the other mushrooms (Set B) was placed directly on the plain white sheet of paper.
Mushrooms - Set B
What conclusion (regarding spore dispersal) would you draw from the results?