Free identify the sweets dichotomous key KS2 science

Help your students practice their classification skills with this free candy dichotomous key activity.

For this activity, pupils will identify the flavors of 9 different sweets using observable features of the wrappers.

What’s included:

• Mystery sweets sheet (with and without spaces for the answers)
• The dichotomous key with couplets
• Answer sheet
• 2 pages with 4 candies for pupils to write their own key

This is an activity that can be used all year round, or tie into holidays like Valentine’s Day, Halloween or Christmas.

A US and UK version is included.