Taxonomy Lesson Plans

This lesson has students use taxonomy in practical setting of the zoo. They practice identifying animals using their knowledge and understanding of taxonomy, phylum characteristics, and binomial nomenclature.

Students investigate the need for taxonomy and perform a variety of activities that will make taxonomy real to them. They identify plants and animals in a specific area and record the information on a data sheet. They write stories about their findings in the specifc areas researched.

7th graders define metacognition, Bloom's Taxonomy, and artifacts. They, in groups, try to identify a mystery artifact using the Artifact Analysis sheet. They present their findings to the class.

In this lesson 7th graders apply Blooms Taxonomy to analyze a collection of artifacts. They define and discuss the nature of artifacts and work in groups to complete handouts. In this lesson 7th graders analyze an object (stone pipe) on a mystery artifact analysis sheet.

In this lesson 7th graders use the Internet to organize information regarding 2002 Olympic Winter Games by constructing a taxonomy key.

Learners explore taxonomy and how birds are classified in this scientific system. They use this knowledge to create entries for a field guide to birds that can be used to identify different species.

This lesson has students explore the concept of taxonomy. In this classification lesson, students discover taxonomy attributes. This lesson has students apply their organizational skills as they observe animals in Shedd Aquarium, record data about the animals, and classify them.

Students explore the history of taxonomy, the work of Carl Linnaeus, and the factors involved in the decline and extinction of a variety of botanical species.

Students explore immigrant experience at Ellis Island, New York, at the turn of the century, and answer questions that challenge them to use thinking skills from various levels of Bloom's taxonomy.

Learners explore science of taxonomy and the Five Kingdoms of life, categorize organisms into Kingdoms, and create multi-media presentations illustrating knowledge of a Kingdom. They collect data and related pictures on the Internet, and provide correct bibliographic annotations to electronic media.