Sorting & Classifying
Science: Year 5 & 6 National Curriculum, topic 11.2.6
Sorting & Classifying
Sorting and classifying mean putting things into groups according to their features.
Scientific sorting and classifying
- Scientific sorting and classifying mean grouping things such as plants, animals or materials according to carefully observed features.
- Groups help us to understand how things are similar or different.
Carl Linnaeus
- Carl Linnaeus was a Swedish scientist born in 1707.
- Linnaeus developed the way we sort living things by their features and characteristics.
Dmitri Mendeleev
- Dmitri Mendeleev was a Russian chemist born in 1834.
- Mendeleev developed the periodic table to group elements based on their atomic weight.
Test yourself on Sorting & Classifying
The elements in the periodic table are grouped based on what characteristic?
What does it mean to sort and classify?
What is the purpose of grouping things in scientific sorting?
What did Dmitri Mendeleev develop?