Copycats – a game

This activity provides an enjoyable way of reinforcing the importance of accurate observation and recording which helps support classification later on. It encourages the children to understand why, when doing science work, they should draw what they see and not add anything or leave something out.

The game is based on ‘Chinese whispers’, but in ‘Copycats’ an original drawing is copied by one child, then the different children, each in turn, copy the previous child’s drawing without seeing the original.

This activity provides the opportunity to consolidate the knowledge of parts of the plant and there are cross-curricular links to be made with Maths (units of measure) and Art.