Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Classification
This lesson will explain the reasons that society groups and classifies. The lesson has a hands-on component that helps students connect everyday grouping with the way that scientists group and classify all living organisms.
CPALMS
Florida State University Cpalms: Florida Students: Diagramming Diversity Ii
Expand understanding of classification with this tutorial designed to help you learn how living organisms are classified according to their evolutionary history.
Michigan Reach Out
Reach Out Michigan: Being Alive
This site provides a basic lesson plan that classifies objects as alive or not alive. Good for early elementary.
Other
Science4 Us: Animals
In online and offline activities, students broaden their understanding of animals by learning to identify and classify animals into six categories: mammals, birds, fish, amphibians, reptiles, and invertebrates.
Other
Alternative Classifications of Life
The Linnaean system (1758) classified all macroscopic living organisms as either Animals or Plants, based on whether they moved [anima, with a soul] or not. Thus, Fungi were included as plants. With the invention of the microscope and...