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Crowther, David T. – Science and Children, 2003
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…
Descriptors: Fantasy, Classification, Teaching Methods, Science Instruction