Step 4 Lesson 1

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Objectives

To know that classifying items means putting them into different groups.

Resources

Small selection of fruit and vegetables | Small hand lens or magnifying glass | 📄 Science dictionary sheet | Camera or smartphone for taking photographs | Two large plastic hoops or two large interjoining circles drawn on a large piece of paper - see 'Apply' section of lesson | Two baskets for sorting fruit and vegetables

Vocabulary

classify | identify | senses | hearing | sight | taste | smell | touch

Today's Lesson

What to Get Ready

Before the lesson, set aside your selection of fruit and vegetables on plates or in dishes. Be aware of any allergies associated with fruit and vegetables before buying and preparing the session. However, they will just be looking, touching and smelling the fruits and vegetables today, rather than eating them.

Introduction

Ask your student to explore the food. Encourage them to use their senses such as sight, smell and touch, as well as the hand lens or magnifying glass, to explore the food. Ask them to smell, feel and touch the fruit and vegetables and to talk about what they are experiencing.

Ask questions about each of the following senses: 

• ‘Which of these foods do you like the look of?’
• ‘Which of these are the most colourful?’
• ‘Do they feel hard or soft?’
• ‘How do they feel?’
• ‘Can you find a fruit or vegetable with a smooth skin?’
• ‘What do they smell like?’

New Learning

Ask your student to sort their fruit and vegetables. Encourage them to write down ideas for how they could all be sorted.

For example: fruit and vegetables; colour; size; shape; texture; weight.

Then ask them to choose one of the ways and to sort the fruit and vegetables into groups.

Ask your student:

• ‘Did you have food that didn't fit your criteria?’
• ‘Why didn't they fit?’
• ‘Which groups were they better suited to?’
• ‘Are there other ways you could sort your food, if we did this differently?’

Take some photographs of the sorted fruit and veg. Next, ask your student to sort the fruit and vegetables in a different way. Repeat the questions for this new way of sorting.

Apply

Show your student the 📄 Science dictionary resource and the explanation of 'identifying' and 'classifying'. Ask your student to identify those fruits and vegetables that could fit into both of their baskets.

Ask:

• Can you find a way of sorting them so that we can see that this food could be in both baskets?

Give them two plastic hoops and encourage them to think about overlapping them (like a Venn diagram – see below).