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- 4th - 6th
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Students explore the process of classification by classifying animals using a taxonomy guide. Full Review »
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- 4th - 6th
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Students classifying animals into meaningful categories, explain what kind of classification system biologists use, create dichotomous keys, and identify animals from classmates' keys. Full Review »
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- 6th - 8th
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Students, working on their own or in groups, use iPhoto to produce a leaf classification photo book. First, students gather different shapes and types of leaves, indoors and out. Full Review »
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- 1st
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Students explore different animal classifications. Full Review »
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- 6th - 8th
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Students investigate animal classifications. They determine the classes of vertebrates after brainstorming a list of animals. They study the characteristics of other classes of animals. Full Review »
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- 3rd - 5th
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Students develop a classification system of their own and describe their method to the class. They relate this activity to how the animal kingdom is classified. Students, after researching a variety of resources, choose one animal to study in depth. Full Review »
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- 4th - 12th
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Students list characteristics and features of animals found in their community. They then group the animals according to how they are similar and different and create names for each group. They then create a chart of their classification system. Full Review »
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- 8th
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Students classify rocks into three categories: sedimentary, igneous, and metamorphic. They explore the characteristics of a dichotomous key and explain its use in classification. They create a dichotomous key to further identify unknown samples of rocks after classifying in the initial three categories. Full Review »
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- 9th - 10th
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Students investigate the classification process and nomenclatures used for classifying organisms. They study dichotomous keys to identify organisms with 90% accuracy. Students organize information regarding the relatedness of species. Full Review »
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- 10th
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Students review the groups of classification in order. As a class, they classify their own town into each group and view a PowerPoint presentation in which different classifications are compared and differences are noted. They provide an example of a analogous structure between the two organisms and discuss as a class. Full Review »

