Topics
Classification of organisms
Characteristics and types of vertebrates
Characteristics and types of invertebrates
Types and characteristics of plants
Chapter 1
Classifying Organisms
Lesson 1, Why do we classify?
Essential Questions
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?
Which are the kingdoms of living things?
Which organisms are unicellular?
Which organisms are multicellular?
Which organisms are both unicellular and multicellular?
What do unicellular and multicellular have in common?
How are unicellular and multicellular different?
Lesson 2, How do we classify vertebrates
Essential Questions
What are the characteristics of animals?
What is the importance of 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 are the characteristics of the amphibian life cycle?
What are the characteristics of the mammal life cycle?
Lesson 3, How do we classify invertebrates?
Essential Questions
1. What are characteristics of invertebrate animals?
2. What are characteristics of mollusks?
3. What are characteristics of worms?
4. What are characteristics of arthropods?
5. How do you identify organisms?
6. How does a dichotomous key work?
7. Which invertebrate undergoes incomplete metamorphosis?
8. Which invertebrates undergo complete metamorphosis?
9. What are the stages of metamorphosis of a butterfly?
10. Which are there more of, vertebrates or invertebrates?
Lesson 4, How are other organisms classified?
Essential Questions
What does vascular mean?
Which plants are vascular?
What does nonvascular mean?
Which plants are nonvascular?
What plants reproduce with seeds?
What plants reproduce with spores?
What are characteristics of plants?
What are characteristics of mosses?
What are characteristics of ferns?
1What are characteristics of conifers?
What are characteristics of flowering plants?
Review for Test
Define all vocabulary words.
Classification of organisms
Six Kingdoms of living things
Classification of animals
vertebrate and invertebrate
Unicellular vs. Multicellular organisms
characteristics of animals
Classification of plants
vascular and nonvascular
reproduction: seeds and spores