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Year 6 · Science

Characteristics And Classification

Year 6 learners practise classifying living things using classification keys.

The activities include Discover Classification, Identify Processes in Classification, Know About Classifying Animals and Plants, and related practice. The checked support below includes video, interactive, lesson, teaching. Open a resource in its provider's website and choose the format that best helps the learner explain the idea independently.

Activities covered

  • Discover Classification
  • Identify Processes in Classification
  • Know About Classifying Animals and Plants
  • Look at Classifying Organisms
  • Look into the Classification of Life
  • Study Classification
  • Use Keys to Aid Classification

Checked learning resources

  • Carl Linnaeus and Classification

    Oak National Academy · Video · Opens on the provider website

    Year 6 lesson video explaining Linnaean classification and how living things are organised into kingdoms and progressively smaller groups. This directly teaches the hierarchy and processes used to classify the animal kin

  • How and Why We Group Animals

    Oak National Academy · Video · Opens on the provider website

    Year 6 lesson video classifying vertebrates and invertebrates from shared characteristics and using classification keys. The Year 6 lesson applies keys while grouping animals from shared characteristics.

  • KS2 Science: Grouping Animals Based on Their Characteristics Video Lesson

    Twinkl · Video · Account may be required

    KS2 teacher-led video grouping animals by habitat and defining characteristics, including the features of major animal groups. The animal examples make the classification process concrete at KS2.

  • Carl Linnaeus and classification worksheet and quiz downloads

    Oak National Academy · Interactive · Opens on the provider website

    Year 6 science downloadable Year 6 worksheet and starter and exit quizzes on Linnaean classification and grouping organisms into kingdoms and smaller groups.

  • Living Things Classification Pack for Year 6

    Twinkl · Lesson · Account may be required

    Year 6 teaching and classification games using tree diagrams and classification keys to classify living things from observable characteristics.

  • Year 6 Classification Is Key eBook

    Twinkl · Teaching · Account may be required

    Year 6 science eBook explaining classification, Carl Linnaeus, vertebrates, invertebrates, plants, microorganisms and the use of classification keys.

  • Comparing characteristics of living things

    Oak National Academy · Video · Opens on the provider website

    Oak Year 6 classification lesson aligned to the full activity context on organism features, kingdoms, classification and keys.

  • Y6 Living Things & Their Habitats Organising Organisms Lesson 1

    Twinkl · Teaching · Account may be required

    Twinkl Year 6 resource from the checked corpus for Characteristics And Classification.