What do they have in common?

What do they have in common?

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Overview
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The rectangles in the diagram below show links between the circles. Colour in the rectangle if there is a true link between the circles. For example: Do mice have a backbone? Yes they do. This link is then true so the rectangle has been coloured in. Your task is to colour in all the other rectangles where there is a true link between the circles.

Task administration: 

Equipment
Colouring pencils or felts.

Level:
3
Curriculum info: 
Science, Knowledge, Living World
Keywords: 
evolution, classification, vertebrates
Description of task: 
Students indicate the links between different examples of vertebrate animals and their classification features by shading the correct links on the diagram provided.
Making Better Sense: 
Vertebrates
Answers/responses: 

 

Y7 (03/02)
Use the grid below to mark this question.

4 correct- very difficult
 
3 correct - very difficult
 
2 correct - difficult
 
1 correct - moderate
Diagnostic and formative information: 

Analysis of correct responses

The links were correctly shaded by 70% or more of the students except;
link between 'seals' and 'mammals' - shaded by only 24% of students.
link between 'kiwi' and 'have a backbone' - 66%.
link between 'have a backbone' and 'fish' - 39%.
link between 'kiwi' and 'feathers' - 65%.
link between 'fish' and 'lay eggs' - 60%.
link between 'feathers' and 'birds' - 67%.