Chapter 1
Classifying Organisms
Lessons
Classification of organisms
Characteristics and types of vertebrates
Characteristics and types of invertebrates
Types and characteristics of plants
Lesson 1, Why do we classify?
What does it mean to classify?
What is an organism?
What is the largest classification of organisms?
What is the smallest and most specific classification of organisms?
What are the kingdoms of living things?
Which organisms are unicellular?
Which organisms are multicellular?
What do unicellular and multicellular have in common?
How are unicellular and multicellular different?
How are humans classified?
Lesson 2, How do we classify vertebrates
What are vertebrates?
What is the importance of having a backbone?
What are the characteristics of mammals?
What are the characteristics of reptiles?
What are the characteristics of birds?
What are the characteristics of amphibians?
What are the characteristics of fish?
What are the characteristics of dinosaurs?
What purpose do fossils serve?
What are some different types of fossils?
What are the characteristics of the amphibian life cycle?
What are the characteristics of the mammal life cycle?
Lesson 3, How do we classify invertebrates?
What are invertebrates?
What are characteristics of mollusks?
What are characteristics of worms?
What are characteristics of arthropods?
How do you identify organisms?
What is metamorphosis?
Lesson 4, How are other organisms classified?
What are plants?
What are the different ways in which plants can be classified?
What does vascular mean?
Which plants are vascular?
Which plants have seeds?
Which plants have flowers?
Review for Test
Vocabulary, terms, and concepts
unicellular and multicellular organisms
Classification system: kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, species
Six kingdoms: archaebacteria, eubacteria, protists, fungi, plants, animals
Vertebrates: mammals, reptiles, birds, amphibians, fish
Invertebrates: mollusks, worms, arthropods
Types of plants: mosses, ferns, conifers, flowering plants
Fossils: cast, mold, preserved, petrified, carbon, trace
Concepts
1. How are organisms classified
2. Know how animals are classified and recognize examples
3. Differentiate between and characteristics of vertebrates and invertebrates
4. Know the classification of plants