Classifying Leaves

Dear 3B,

A recap on the group activity on "Classifying Leaves"...

The children were told to each bring a number of leaves to school without knowing what they were going to do with them.

The next Science lesson, they were told to come into their groups and pool their collected leaves together. Kudos to those who remembered and hence facilitating the group work much easier!

They were tasked to classify these leaves in any way they like, keeping in mind what kind of characteristics are they comparing and hence grouping. They were to draw a classification diagram and paste their leaves on a vanguard sheet in 20 minutes.

Team members hard at work

 Pictures of completed and incompleted classification diagram:

I hope that 3B pupils will be even better team players by communicating effectively and working out their differences. After all, we are all continuously learning from one another. Knowledge-building, remember?

The next lesson, we reviewed some groups' diagrams and we realised that they are other ways of classifying leaves, other than common characteristics like color, shape and size. We explored other characteristics like edges (e.g. smooth/entire, toothed/jagged), simple and compound leaves as well as pattern of veins (network and parallel).

I hope from these group sharing by your classmates, you are armed with more knowledge of classification.

Here's a snapshot of Iona's AA project - Classifying leaves.

Notice how she didn't just classify by colour and size only.

There are always more ways to classify the same items.

Good job again!