Life Classifications
Life Classifications
What are the characteristics common to all living things and how are living things classified into different groups
Critical Thinking: Students analyze how living organisms are classified and the significance of these classifications.
Adaptive Perseverance: Students conduct investigations on living organisms, adapting their understanding of life's characteristics and classifications.
Collaboration: Students work in groups to research and share findings on the classification of organisms, fostering a collaborative learning environment.
How do specific organisms exhibit the characteristics of life?
What criteria are used to classify organisms into different kingdoms and domains?
How does the classification system reflect the evolutionary relationships among organisms?
Students will identify and describe the characteristics common to all living things.
Students will explore and understand the hierarchical system of classification from domains to species.
Students will classify a variety of organisms based on characteristics and understand the evolutionary relationships among them.
Skills Demonstrated:
Students will be able to:
Asking Questions
Developing and Using Models
Planning and Carrying Out Investigations
Analyzing and Interpreting Data
Using Mathematics and Computational Thinking
Constructing Explanations
Engaging in Argument from Evidence
Obtaining, Evaluating, and Communicating Information
MS-LS1-1: Conduct an investigation to provide evidence that living things are made of cells; either one cell or many different numbers and types of cells.
MS-LS4-1: Analyze and interpret data for patterns in the fossil record that document the existence, diversity, extinction, and change of life forms throughout the history of life on Earth under the assumption that natural laws operate today as in the past.
MS-LS4-2: Apply scientific ideas to construct an explanation for the anatomical similarities and differences among modern organisms and between modern and fossil organisms to infer evolutionary relationships.
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