13th November 2019 

ESSAY  
“DOES CLASSIFICATION HELP OR 
RESTRICT OUR UNDERSTANDING OF NEW 
INFORMATION?” 
~ 
By: Sindhu Pericharla  
MYP 4 B 
 
 
Classification is a system of categorizing living things. It is a process of organizing 
components of varying aspects into separate sets thus to support us in our interpretation of 
their differences and similarities. The classification of science has a few advantages and 
disadvantages in impacting our knowledge and studying of latest data. Many things like 
classification of procaryotes and eucaryotes are meant to be learnt over middle school.  
The inclusion of classification in our IB curriculum specifically during the time a student 
starts school and by the time they end up at 8th grade will be the most critical period 
provided the standard syllabus all through the world. Nevertheless, the limitations of this 
approach of education ​have only been lately coming into light​.  
 
While opposing to the broadly clear delusion that says that the amount and condition of 
acknowledgement in young adolescents is comparatively detailed and condensed, 
information received from current study demonstrates that their philosophy is quite 
intricate. basic views that aid one is thinking and the studying of science are in position 
even before they enter school. 
 
Despite that, present science education is constraining growth in a student’s capacity to 
incorporate their studying and their previous understanding of the planet. A significant 
portion of the present science education curriculum is foundationed on conjectures dating 
decades old. These conjectures have ended that children are actually inadequate in some 
means leading in an emphasis on what they cannot do rather than what they can do. “It 
inquires what children are “missing” and drives to analysis questioning when they obtain a 
specific part of thinking” as said in the article. This has been contested over past research.  
 
The significant quantity of understanding that children carry with them to primary school 
arises from their reciprocities with the world and over the method of refinement and 
grownups expressly provision them with information. The fine agreement of 
understanding acquired over undergo allows them to be capable adequate to undertake in 
studying throughout all 4 cords of scientific professionalism. With this exemplary comes 
the many measures to incorporate or construct upon the students already existing 
understanding of the organic world to finally realize far more complicated topics of science 
without limiting their consciousness and opposing the effectiveness of their own 
philosophy.  
 
Students of most ages search information and clarification online. Even the youngest of 
children are sensitive to highly abstract patterns and relations. The presumptions they pull 
from this research help them mainstream and sort various views of the natural world. 
Learning classification offers for resources in which learners can arrange information by 
adding on to their prior understanding, breakin misperceptions and appropriate thinking. 
Furthermore, comprehension of diversity and natural systems in is perhaps fundamental 
at this age given that the rate at which concepts are understood by students in the coming 
years depends on their core knowledge.  
 
Teaching classification under the study of science permits for students to improve 
comprehending contrast through the recognition of set characteristics. Chances of the 
study of classification constraining a child subconscious Development comes only when 
there is a lack of consolidation of the real-life and abstract knowledge rendered to them. An 
education integrating this views would certainly enhance their core understanding and 
intensify their understanding of the subject, therefore allowing them to be capable and 
reasonable intellectuals throughout their lives.