Handbook:Example 2 Introducing classification
From KeyToNature
Although not many of the tools used in KeyToNature follow a classical systematic approach. It is still interesting to approach the classification system for plants and animals.
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1 Overview:
Learning the principles of classification. Teach children the scheme in which scientists classify living things.
2 School level: Primary and early secondary levels
3 KeyToNature Key: not necessary
4 Background information:
Explain that scientist classify living things into various groups and gives scientists from all over the world a common way to refer to particular organisms. To give the students a sense of how this classification system works uses the classification of two common animals. E.g. a house cat and a house dog that share many classification groupings.
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Chordata
- Class: Mammalia
- Order: Carnivora
- Family: Felidae / Canidae
- Genus: Felis / Canis
- Species: Felis catus / Canis familiaris
