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Year 4 · Science

Grouping

Year 4 learners practise grouping animals vertebrates and invertebrates.

The activities include Group Invertebrates, Group Plants and Animals, How to Group Living Things, and related practice. The checked support below includes video, interactive, lesson, worksheet. Open a resource in its provider's website and choose the format that best helps the learner explain the idea independently.

Activities covered

  • Group Invertebrates
  • Group Plants and Animals
  • How to Group Living Things
  • Identify Animals from a Description
  • Identify Differences and Similarities Between Animal Groups
  • Know How to Group Animals
  • Look at Invertebrate Groups
  • Practise Grouping Invertebrates
  • Sort Invertebrates into Groups
  • Sort Plants into Groups
  • Sort Vertebrates into Groups

Checked learning resources

  • Introducing Observable Characteristics

    Oak National Academy · Video · Opens on the provider website

    Year 4 lesson compares the observable characteristics of both plants and animals and uses those features to sort living things, matching the odd-one-out task.

  • Grouping animals

    Oak National Academy · Video · Opens on the provider website

    Year 4 lesson, video, worksheet and quizzes grouping invertebrates by observable characteristics, including animals without backbones.

  • Introducing Observable Characteristics: Worksheet and Quizzes

    Oak National Academy · Interactive · Opens on the provider website

    Year 4 worksheet and quizzes ask pupils to identify visible characteristics and use them to group plants and animals.

  • Science: Grouping Living Things Year 4 Lesson 1

    Twinkl · Lesson · Account may be required

    Authenticated Year 4 lesson presentation and activities compare plants and animals, identify observable features and sort living things into meaningful groups.

  • Plant Classification Sorting Activity

    Twinkl · Worksheet · Account may be required

    KS2 science sorting activity asks pupils to classify plants by visible characteristics, including flowering and non-flowering groups.

  • KS2 Plant Classification and Identification Science Investigation

    Twinkl · Lesson · Account may be required

    KS2 investigation guides pupils to observe plant features, classify specimens and justify how each plant belongs in its group.

  • Grouping animals worksheet and quiz downloads

    Oak National Academy · Interactive · Opens on the provider website

    Year 4 downloadable Year 4 worksheet and starter and exit quizzes grouping invertebrates by observable characteristics, including animals without backbones.

  • Science: Invertebrate Hunt Year 4 Lesson 3

    Twinkl · Lesson · Account may be required

    Year 4 lesson and worksheets for identifying and grouping invertebrates by their observable characteristics.