{"id":21110,"date":"2016-10-18T15:30:39","date_gmt":"2016-10-18T19:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/?p=21110"},"modified":"2016-10-18T14:58:10","modified_gmt":"2016-10-18T18:58:10","slug":"studying-classification-and-variation-in-year-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/school-news\/studying-classification-and-variation-in-year-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Studying Classification and Variation in Year 6"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"yr-6-classification-oct-2016-14\"<\/a>Year 6 have been learning all about the animal kingdom this term in science.\u00a0 This strand of biology has focused on the importance of classification and variation.\u00a0 Year 6, wearing their scientist hats, have discovered that classification is all about sorting; and variation is concerned with differences between species.<\/p>\n

With this in mind, Year 6 quickly realised that the animal kingdom is divided into two main groups: vertebrates and invertebrates.\u00a0 Vertebrates are animals who possess a backbone and invertebrates do not.\u00a0 Moreover, it was quickly ascertained that further classification would be needed in order to group organisms together more readily based upon similarities and differences.\u00a0 More research revealed that scientists also classify vertebrates and invertebrates into subgroups depending on certain characteristics.<\/p>\n

Please look at the photographs below and judge for yourselves how well we have coped with getting to grips with lots of new scientific vocabulary and the classification of our animal kingdom.<\/p>\n

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Working in small groups the children produced information posters on the 5 main vertebrate groups; and working either in a pair or individually, they created mind maps which highlighted the main features of some of the more common invertebrate groups.<\/p>\n

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Such hard workers!\u00a0 The information is both advanced and informative.\u00a0 Please feel free to pop in and take a closer look.\u00a0 You will be guaranteed to leave with an array of facts that relate to these groupings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Year 6 have been learning all about the animal kingdom this term in science.\u00a0 This strand of biology has focused on the importance of classification and variation.\u00a0 Year 6, wearing their scientist hats, have discovered that classification is all about sorting; and variation is concerned with differences between species. With this in mind, Year 6 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,18],"tags":[],"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21110"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21110"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21112,"href":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21110\/revisions\/21112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}