Activities
- Use a dichotomous key to identify common animals here. The teacher lesson
plan for this site is here.
- Have students do this NOVA activity for classifying
fish. The worksheet is in html or
 .
- Try this "Animal
Classifications" game.
- This "Drag and Drop" game has students put
the classification categories in the correct order.
- Glencoe has online worksheets for
"Classification" and "The Six Kingdoms" .
- Have students do this "Classification"
 wordsearch puzzle with
answers .
- Here is an activity for making a
cladogram .
- Have students do this "Invent a Key for
Echinoderms"
activity.
- Using a dichotomous key to identify "Pamishan Creatures."
- Use a dichotomous key to identify imaginary
creatures of the genus "Norno."
- Try this "Interpreting Graphics--Taxonomy"
worksheet.
- "All In the Family" is an online PBS
activity in which students construct a cladogram.
- In this "Dichotomous Key" activity, students create a key to
classify all the students in the class.
- "Molecular Evidence for Evolutionary
Relationships" is a Teacher's Domain
lesson (You must register for free to access.) that includes videos,
readings, and worksheets. In one activity, students construct
a cladogram.
- Try this "Cladograms and Genetics" activity from Mrs.
Rebello.
- And do Mrs. Rebello's "Constructing a
Cladogram" activity, and extention of the Biology
Corner activity.
- In "Harry
Potter and the Dichotomous Key" students use a key to
classify jelly beans.
- Have
students classify these "Creepy Critters" into similar groups.
Creepy Critter cards are included.
 Have
students do this worksheet on "The Six Kingdom System" .- "The
Mystery of the Chamber of Living Things" has
students use the description of living things found on
Egyptian hieroglyphics to determine
the kingdom in which they belong.
- Play the Who
Wants to Be a Millionaire game on "Classification."
Labs
- Use pictures of labware (or the actual labware) to
make a dichotomous key . This diagram
can be used to organize the labware.
- "Cladistics Is a Zip. . . Baggie"
uses ziploc bags of varying sizes to produce a cladogram. PDF
files are included for student handouts and much more.
- NOVA's "Hardware Organism" lab has students
classify types of screws and nails and develop a cladogram for
them. It includes HTML and PDF handouts for
students. I developed a blank characterics chart and
cladogram to use with this activity.
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