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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Creation of Dichotomous Keys From a Bio Blitz

For Teachers 6th - 8th
An outdoor lab where students investigate the environment and decide a method of survey to identify trees in their area. To finish the exercise they will create a dichotomous key of the ten they identified.
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Introduction to Dichotomous Keys

For Teachers 6th - 8th
This lesson serves as an introduction to the classification of plants and animals or trees. Students will investigate how to classify objects based on their similarities and differences. They will use technical writing to explain their...
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Siemens Science Day: Life Science: The Key to It All

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this hands-on science activity, students will create their own unique creatures as well as dichotomous keys so that classmates can identify the creature.
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Using and Creating a Dichotomous Key

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers will investigate classification through a sorting activity and discus real-life evidence of classifying objects.
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PBS

Pbs Teachers: Jewel of the Earth

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Collect and analyze organisms and use a dichotomous key to identify and classify the organisms. Research the evolutionary history of organisms.
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Identifying Macroinvertebrates to Determine Health of Aquatic Ecosystem

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this hands on activity students will learn how to identify basic macroinvertebrate using a dichotomous key. They will complete a chart used by the MPCA and we will discuss why an ecosystem may not be healthy or not.
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Biology Corner

Biology Corner: Taxonomy Project

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A teacher lesson plan that allows young scholars to pretend to be an alien taxonomist working with fictitious animals to create their scientific name, classification chart, design a dichotomous key, and create a food web.
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Utah Education Network

Uen: Classifying Conundrum

For Teachers 4th
For this activity, 4th graders will identify plant characteristics from different environments.
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Investigating Plant Life in Our Nature Center

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
In this Nature Center activity, students will apply knowledge from our classifying living things unit. They will compare what they already know about leaves to actual leaf samples. After collecting 5 leaves and keeping them in a journal,...
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Identifying Plant Family Characteristics

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Young scholars make observations of similarities and differences between three types of garden plants to determine why they are grouped together in one plant family.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Abc Book of Fauna

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This instructional activity is to provide students the opportunity to explore the various types of fauna (animals) found in the various biomes throughout the world.
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Mn Step: Minn Aqua Minnesota Fish Identification

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Describes a lesson in which students sort fish cards into groups based on the characteristics of the fish. The MinnAqua resources referred to can now be found at...
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University of Michigan

Michigan Sea Grant: Teaching Great Lakes Science: Fish Identification

For Teachers 4th - 8th
In this lesson, students examine the physical characteristics of fish that live in the Great Lakes and identify common features that help species to survive in that environment. Downloadable resources include a fish poster, fish family...

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