What have we learnt so far?

Living things

PlantsAnimals

InvertebratesVertebrate

Fish

Reptiles

Birds Mammals

Amphibians

Is it an animal or a plant?

Does it have a backbone?

Yes No

What do we mean when we say subdivide?

WALT: know how to use a key to sort a range of unfamiliar plants and animals

WILF:

- I can identify some plants and animals that live in polar regions  - I can design questions for my key that split my group in two  - I can make sure that each plant or animal is in a group of its own  - I can check my own key and those of others

What animals live in the

Polar Regions?

Arctic wolf

Polar bear

Penguin

Arctic FoxWalrus

Leopard seal

Polar bear – Key

features• Lives in The Arctic

• Thick fur and blubber

for insulation

• White colour

• Mammal

• Large claws and teeth

• Has 4 legs

What questions

could you ask?

• Does it live in The

Arctic?

•Does it have 4 legs?

What questions

could you ask?

• Is it a mammal?

•Does it have white fur?

Arctic Fox – Key features• Mammal

• Found in The Arctic

• Warm fur

• Most are white in

colour

• Has 4 legs

• Has a thick, bushy tail

Is it a mammal?

Yes No

Does it have legs?

Yes No

Does it have long tusks?

Yes No

TASK: Create your own key to sort animals

that live in the Polar Regions.

WILF:

- I can design questions for my key that

split my group in two

- I can make sure that each animal is in a

group of its own

- I can check my own key and those of

others

WALT: know how to use a key to sort a range of unfamiliar plants and animals

WILF:

- I can identify some plants and animals that live in polar regions  - I can design questions for my key that split my group in two  - I can make sure that each plant or animal is in a group of its own  - I can check my own key and those of others

Is it a plant?

Does it have legs?

Does it have a sting?

Does it have a shell?

Yes

Yes

Yes

No

No

No

Yes No