Classification Vocabulary Word Search

Year 6 ScienceLiving Things and Their Habitats2 pages

About this worksheet

A Year 6 word search on classifying living things, over two pages with the answer key. Twelve words hide in a grid of 11 rows and 12 columns, and they read forwards, backwards, upwards, downwards and diagonally. The list mixes animal groups such as AMPHIBIAN, ARACHNID and MOLLUSC with BACTERIA, FUNGUS, FLOWERING, VERTEBRATE and INVERTEBRATE. The key gives the start and end square of each word. It suits England National Curriculum work on classifying living things into broad groups.

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Curriculum objectives covered

Living things and their habitats

โ€œDescribe how living things are classified into broad groups according to common observable characteristics and based on similarities and differences, including micro-organisms, plants and animalsโ€

The words name broad groups, including micro-organisms (BACTERIA), plants (FLOWERING) and animals (MAMMAL, INSECT). Pupils find the names but do not classify anything.

Living things and their habitats

โ€œGive reasons for classifying plants and animals based on specific characteristics.โ€

Not met by the search itself. VERTEBRATE and INVERTEBRATE give you a start for that discussion.

What's inside this worksheet

Classification of Living Things

The letter grid, with words running in all eight directions.

Word list

Twelve words in boxes under the grid, from AMPHIBIAN to VERTEBRATE.

Answers

Start and end positions for each word, such as MAMMAL from (1, 11) to (1, 6).

How teachers use it

Spelling support

Leave it on tables during a classification lesson so pupils can check how to spell ARACHNID and MOLLUSC.

Hidden inside

Point out that VERTEBRATE sits inside INVERTEBRATE on the same row, then talk about what in- changes.

Sort afterwards

Once all twelve are found, pupils sort them into vertebrate groups, invertebrate groups and other living things.

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