Our learning environment consists of 7 teaching-learning activities that aim at helping students to actively engage with the vertebrate animals classification while using different types of reasoning. Considering the above theories, we developed a three-part, collaborative learning environment within the theoretical framework of constructivism. Moreover, classical theory suggests that we classify, e.g., individual birds under the concept bird by articulating bird-definitions. Family resemblance-inspired theories suggest that we classify, e.g., individual birds under the concept bird by intuitively relying on examples of birds and/or on lists of their shared features. Philosophers have provided theories that suggest different mechanisms of categorization. Here, we will present the 1st version of our learning environment which supports primary school students in constructing the biological concepts of fish, amphibian, reptile, bird, mammal, and enhancing their categorization skills. This paper reports on the 1st case study performed in the 1st cycle of a design research aiming at designing a learning environment based on philosophical theories of concept formation (i.e.
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