Flickr Presentation

KY-SC-HS.3.4.7: Students will
- classify organisms into groups based on similarities
- infer relationships based on internal and external structures and chemical processes. Biological classifications are based on how organisms are related. Organisms are classified into a hierarchy of groups and subgroups based on similarities that reflect their relationships. Species is the most fundamental unit of classification. Different species are classified by the comparison and analysis of their internal and external structures and the similarity of their chemical processes.

Our flickr presentation that acts as an introduction to classification can be found here. The slideshow will allow students to practice the act of classification themselves on everyday objects such as cars, chairs, and flowers before they are introduced to the way that scientists classify organisms. This is meant to get them thinking about the necessity to have one means of classification so that a group of people, i.e. scientists, will have a shared language for grouping their objects of study, i.e. organisms.