Fungi are organisms that include moulds, mushrooms, and yeasts. They feed on organic matter, usually from dead things.

Yeast is a type of fungus. It is a micro-organism used for making bread.

In a comparative test, the thing that is being changed has labels, such as the types of materials.

A variable is something that can be changed, measured or kept the same in an investigation.

Growing yeast: plan (non-statutory)

Science

Comparing characteristics of living things

How and why we group animals

How and why we group plants

Micro-organisms are living things

Grouping micro-organisms

Micro-organisms living on food: plan and do (non-statutory)

The 5 Rs (non-statutory Climate Change & Sustainability)

Microorganisms that help us (non-statutory)

Growing yeast: do and review (non-statutory)

Micro-organisms living on food: review (non-statutory)

Carl Linnaeus and classification

Discovering and naming new species

In this Why we group and classify living things unit, pupils learn about why we classify plants and animals based on specific characteristics. In the Species and classification unit, they will build on this knowledge to learn more about the identification and classification of organisms, including at the cellular level.

In the Living things and the environment unit, pupils learnt to recognise that living things can be grouped in a variety of ways. In this Why we group and classify living things unit, pupils will build on this knowledge to give reasons for classifying plants and animals based on specific characteristics

This unit covers the classification of living things, including micro-organisms, plants, and animals, based on observable characteristics. It explores reasons for classification and focuses on planning scientific enquiries, recording data, presenting findings, and evaluating scientific evidence.

Why we group and classify living things

Which of these living things is not a type of fungus?

Yeast is a very useful micro-organism. Which of these processes can we use yeast for?

it makes its own food using photosynthesis

it sends microscopic spores through air to find food

Yeast needs nutrition to survive and reproduce. Where does yeast get its nutrition from?

ideas about what you think might happen in the enquiry

things that can be shown visually in a graph

Scientists control variables during comparative test enquiries. What are variables?

When yeast takes in food, it produces a gas called ...

When a liquid fizzes and bubbles are formed, what is inside the bubbles?

they make more living things of the same type

they live together with living things of the same type

All living things can reproduce. What does this mean?

living things that are too small to see with the naked eye

non-living things that can be found almost everywhere

pieces of equipment that we can use to look at very small things

incredibly small animals that can live inside other living things

an investigation where everyone gets a turn

an investigation carried out by reading secondary sources

an investigation where all variables but one are kept the same

an investigation that doesn’t use much equipment

All fungi are too small to be seen with the naked eye.

All fungi need nutrition to grow and reproduce.

Which of these statements about fungi are not correct?

Growing yeast: plan (non-statutory)

Lesson outcome