February 18-19

Today in class we worked on and finished our NORNS dichotomous classification as a warm up. NORNS paper Here!

We also went over groups of classification and took guided notes.
Classification of living things PPT Classification of living things PPT and Classification of living things Guided Notes.... Classification Stations (4 stations done in class.)

Wednesday, you will have time to work in the library AFTER our short test.

You were assigned the following vocabulary words due FRIDAY!

ÒSet 1:

1.Classification

2.Taxonomy

3.Binomial nomenclature

4.Genus

5.Species

6.Phylum

7.Class

8.Order

9.Taxonomic key

10.Dichotomous key

ÒSet 2:

1.Kingdom

2.Archaebacteria

3.Eubacteria

4.Protists

5.Fungi

6.Plants/Plantae

7.Animals/Animalia

You were assigned your animal classification project that is DUE next week.
Animal Classification Project Rubric

ÒResource links:

Ò1.  Animal Diversity Web (University of Michigan Museum of Zoology)

Ò2.  Classification of Animals (Museum of Natural History at UGA)

Ò3.  Integrated Taxonomic Information System 

Ò4.  Animal Classes (Kidzone)

Ò5.  Animal Taxonomy (Colorado State University)