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Working like a scientist

Identifying and classifying

When you work as a scientist it is important to identify

different things such as: materials, plants, animals, and

parts of the body.
One way that scientists learn about these things is to put

them into groups, and this is called classifying. Here we

can see that materials have been sorted into two groups.

These groups are magnetic materials and materials that

are not magnetic.

We have sorted

materials into

two groups.

plastic
steel spoon

iron nail
wood
magnetic not magnetic

Questions

1 Have you done any of these things in the past?

2 Which type of science enquiry would you most

like to do? Why?

3 Which type of science enquiry do you think is

the most important for scientists?

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