Activities
Labs
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National Standards

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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