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Grade 7, Science Std #: 4 Describe organisms in the six kingdom classification system by their characteristics.

Lesson Plans: Classify That! To expand students’ knowledge of living organisms and further develop their ability to group, or classify, living organisms according to a variety of common features. To introduce students to scientific groupings of organisms. Potato Chip Classification The purpose of this activity is twofold. Used at the beginning of the year, it introduces the structure and function of a dichotomous key preparatory to asking students to identify plant and animal specimens. It also reinforces the idea that there are many "right" answers in science Animal Classification Students will explore the classification system used for animals. Includes research and group activity in which students devise their own classification system. Classification System - Ukaliq: The Arctic Hare Students will use their imaginations to create a classification system for dividing various Arctic-dwelling animals (including the Arctic hare) into categories. Emphasis will be placed on the Linnaean classification system. Taxonomic Twisters Scientists use classification as a tool to aid them when researching organisms. Classification can be used to show how organisms are related, and used as a tool to describe evolutionary changes. Students classify everyday objects, then apply the principles to classification of organisms. Leaf Classification Use and develop a simple classification system. What did T. rex taste like? Students learn that once a cladogram has been constructed for a group of organisms, it can be used to answer all kinds of interesting questions based on the shared inherited features of those organisms.

Resources: All Species Inventory Taxonomy is one of the oldest practices in biology—the science of classifying and naming living things according to how similar they are to other creatures. Now, a group of scientists and Silicon Valley entrepreneurs is trying to bring the musty field of taxonomy into the twenty-first century. Classification Resources Includes links and a self-test Classification of Living Things: Introduction Tutorial related to classification Scientific classification Encyclopedia reference related to classification and its history Classification of Organisms - Table Outlines the history of classification systems
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