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What's Your Genus? Scientific Classification and the VT Lesson PlanWhat's Your Genus? Scientific Classification and the VT Lesson Plan
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What's Your Genus? Scientific Classification and the VT

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Students learn about binomial nomenclature, the scientific system of classification. In this scientific classification lesson, students work cooperatively to complete a binomial scavenger hunt using the internet and a Visual Thesaurus. Student groups compete against other teams to correctly identify and classify the greatest number of organisms according to their binomial and common names.

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scientific classification, taxonomy, genus

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bionomial nomenclature, classification, genus, visual thesaurus, science
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Grade
6th - 12th
Subjects
Science
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Resource Type
Lesson Plans
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For Teacher Use
Duration
1 hr
Year
2008

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