4.viii. Reflecting on how to use and create a classification key

Before watching Mrs Moore demonstrates how to create a classification tree on the whiteboard the children ‘guess which leaf Mrs Moore is thinking of…’. This helps the children think about the questions they should use when creating their own classification key. Go to section 3.viii to watch the video relating to this interaction.

The children ask Mrs Moore five closed questions -

They also perform this activity in pairs, with their peers, independently of the teacher:

Post teacher demonstrating how to create a key the children to create their own roughly sketched classification key on a sheet of A4 paper.