Questions to think about before beginning this lesson.
1. How can taxonomy keys help to identify organisms?
2. Why do taxonomy keys use paired statements?
Lesson
This lesson is called the "Plant Classification." You will use the scientific classification system to classify organisms. Your job is to create your own classification key using plants. Obtain some plants from your teacher. Once you have finished creating your classification key, exchange you key and flowers with another group and see if you can classify their plants using their classification key.
You will login to mastery connect and take an assessment called classifying plants.
Reference
Pengo. (2008). Image:Biological classification L Pengo.svg. Wikimedia.commons. Retrieved on Dec. 5, 2008 from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Biological_classification
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