JoinHarry Potter and the Dichotomous Key
In this lesson, students use Bertie Bott’s Every Flavor Beans—a “wild” candy written about in the Harry Potter books and now available in stores—to learn about classification and dichotomous keys. In these activities, students sort jelly beans according to a key and then construct a key for a “new” flavor of beans. Students then build on their knowledge by classifying buttons and constructing their own classification key.