My students were learning about Biodiversity. We had just talked about why we classify and continued our conversation through a group activity. Students got into groups of 4-5 and were given a category under vertebrate and had to choose 2 animals to compare and classify on popplet. For example, one group got the category Mammals and classified Humans and Gorillas. Following this, they presented to the class about their vertebrates and why they decided to classify it the way they did, along with the information they found. After this, we looked at an invertebrate- worms! They watched the movement of the worm and concluded that there are 7 characteristics of a living thing. The students were able to brainstorm as a whole group what the characteristics could be!
