About this worksheet
Sixteen specimens go into four broad groups on this three-page Year 6 classification sheet. The groups are Vertebrates, Invertebrates, Plants and Micro-organisms, with four specimens each. The list mixes familiar names, such as the barn owl and dandelion, with harder ones like Paramecium, Lactobacillus bacteria and Penicillium mould. Pupils then explain the hardest specimen to place and add one new organism to each group, with the feature they used. The answer key gives the sort and explains tricky cases such as the sea anemone and the duck-billed platypus. It follows the England National Curriculum for living things and their habitats.
