U1: Classification

Key Learning Points:

• Classification is the grouping of items according to their characteristics or properties (can be visible ones like colour, texture, or it can be invisible properties like being magnetic, able to float on water etc).



• It helps us to organise things (and information) so that we can find them easily.



• It also helps us to study the similarities and differences of those items.



• For living things, they are usually classified according to their body form (or structure), movement (can or cannot move and how they move) and their nutrition (how they find and feed their on food).



• Before any classification, we must first know the purpose of the classification. Then decide which property or characteristic to use to group them.



• Information on classification can be presented either in a table form or in a classification chart. This will help any reader to quickly understand the information and characteristics of the items.