Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to explain how microorganisms can be beneficial or harmful to living things and group microorganisms by their observable matching characteristics and templates to and group different microorganisms by their observable matching characteristics using Venn and Carroll diagrams.

The interactive presentation can be used to explore different ways of sorting microorganisms into matching groups by their appearance and growth.

This lesson is part of a science scheme of work to get the children to identify, group and compare some of the different plants and animals that live in a variety of habitats around the world. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.