Students will use their scientific knowledge, creativity, and critical thinking skills to reimagine the way we classify the world and communicate alternative ways of seeing and thinking. Students will be required to disrupt the way they order the animal kingdom, to ask novel questions and reposition data, and to justify and communicate their new ways of thinking. As a possible extension, students can also be asked to consider different ways to order their school. 

• Classification of animal species

• History of Science

This unit has a creativity and critical thinking focus:

•  Generate and play with unusual and radical ideas

• Challenge assumptions and make connections

• Propose own opinion justified on logical, ethical or aesthetic criteria

Web and Print

• Collection of photos of animals 

•  Not essential but a graphic that might help explain the classification of animals, such as: https://www.sheppardsoftware.com/content/animals/kidscorner/classification/kc_class_again.htm  

• On imaginary beings/animals, two possible references are Jorge Luis Borges’ "Book of Imaginary Beings”, which has been illustrated by many artists including Peter Sis, Natascha Schwarz or Silvio Baldessari (Many of these illustrations can be found on the web) and Laurence King’s “Myth Match: A Fantastical Flipbook of Extraordinary beasts” 

Other Resources 

• Paper and pens for recording data from school  

• Art materials for the presentation of the data 

English Version

• https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ASPDoWyzX8UWTalLRek5f2KJJ-qu2e8fZdEHZCMFm0c/edit?usp=sharing

Hindi Version

• https://docs.google.com/document/d/1nzNOyPvOGkUJr1BK6xOwY6s9SIgNNfSFsHgCBEZnN4M/edit?usp=sharing

Gujarati Version

• https://docs.google.com/document/d/1JNxCQRNj3soQ5JlKx7HrZoudo7obCdKZTFSRKFX3A54/edit?usp=sharing

Kannada Version

• https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rVWds14Y3qhhGogkLcPyOiV9uNSnI76Nii5u3d7-h5k/edit?usp=drive_link