Classification

How do we tell what is what? We classify things.

Amoeba Sisters Classification Video

Part 1: Animal Classification Puzzle

See this 2018 article on the discovery of the oldest known animal fossil.

Use the Animal Kingdom Chart to complete the Animal Classification Assignment.

Part 2: Classification Webquest

Before you click on the hyper links below, read all the directions that follow:

Start with (click on): Macro-Invertebrate Identification

- choose one of the streams and identify all 6 benthic macroinvertebrates

- do the same for the other stream

- decide which stream is the healthiest

Continue with (click on): WHAT IS A WATERSHED LINK

- read the text and watch the animation.

If you finish early, please do the Classification Word Search (look on the "Read Me" shelf in the back of the classroom for a laminated copy of this) or move on to part 3 or the extensions of this assignment listed below.

Part 3: Classification Info Notes

Watch Hank Green Crash Course on Taxonomy.

Take notes into the Classification Info sheet.

See the completed sample of the info sheet to check your answers.

Part 4: Classy Creatures & Silly Science

Sometimes we can use a dichotomous key.

Dichotomous Key Video

Complete the Classy Creatures sheet.

Complete the Silly Science sheet using a bag of objects.

Part 5: Foam Classification

Watch the Dichotomous Keys Introduction PowerPoint.

Create a dichotomous key on a whiteboard for the foam objects provided.

1. With the whiteboard in landscape orientation, make a large oval at the top for "all foamies"

2. Create 2-3 smaller ovals below this for your first round of separation, and label each oval.

3. Repeat step 2 as many times as you need to get the items separated into piles of 1-2 objects.

Trade objects and dichotomous keys with another table group to test if your key works.

Classification Extension: Classification Webquest 2

Before you click on the hyperlinks below, read the directions that follow:

Start with (click on) https://www.uwsp.edu/cnr-ap/leaf/Pages/TreeKey/treeToIdentify.aspx?feature=Main

#1 specimen - pictures on left are of that specimen – make a best match clicking on pic on the right and follow until you get to the name (click on name, then click on name again and pictures should be a perfect match) – click to go back a level if needed

**when #1 done, go through other numbers

Continue with (click on) Plant Identification

- do Woodland Edge and identify all 6 plants

- go back to Habitats and do same for Meadow

- go back to Habitats and do same for Lowland Forest

Continue with (click on) FishIdentification

- identify all 10 fish

When done you can play the SWIM FOR YOUR LIFE game.

Watch Linnaeus Video

1. Write a one paragraph summary of what you learned from the resources linked above.

2. Then, evaluate the resources in one paragraph. In your evaluation, give your opinion on how appropriate the material from them would be for the rest of class, judge the pros and cons of them, and predict how well students will do with the them.

3. Then, write a paragraph with a recommendation for whether the resources should be used by the full class in the future.