Science - Classification and Candles

In Science so far this year, Room 10 have looked at the Material World; where we explored the 3 States of Matter and found out what a candle needs to burn and some of the changes that take place during burning.

Now we are learning about the Living World and Classification. (Taxonomy is the science of classifying things.)  We have learnt how the animal kingdom is grouped and we are now focussing on Arthropods - Spiders and Insects. 

Here we are observing a variety of  exotic creatures and deciding whether they are spiders and insects by their specific features: