This week's Science lesson was about classification and identification. We began by discussing how this concept could be used from Early Years to Year 6. We were given a tray with different items in it, and we discussed how the different age groups would classify the items into different groups.
For Early Years, it would be as simple as soft and hard items, whereas in Year 6, it could be transparent and opaque.
We then moved on to a late KS2 activity. We read part of White Owl, Barn Owl, and discussed what and how much an owl would eat. Much to my initial disgust, we were then provided with an owl pellet in pairs (an owl's regurgitated food - the sludge-like substance is the fur and feathers it could not digest!) to dissect and pick out the bones it had eaten.
Once I got past the initial gross-ness of it, I found myself really getting into it, and was fascinated when we discovered skulls! The picture above is from 2 pellets, and we found 5 skulls!
Our task was then to identify what animals it had eaten. We were given a sheet to identify each bone to the correct animal, and even managed to put together the skeleton of a mouse!
This is something that a Year 5/6 class would find extremely exciting, and would benefit their learning by identifying each bone of the animal! I will definitely be keeping hold of this idea and embracing it when i have my own Year 5/6 class!
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