Correlate the button activity to Why do you think taxonomists classify Students will try their best to the Linnaean classification organisms? [Facilitate scientific answer any questions regarding system. communication; To better study taxonomy. evolution, genetics and other Encourage students that even biological scientists; For fun; Because if they might get a question they have nothing better to do] wrong (like giving the wrong definition to a term), that they Try and think back to when you were are at least putting forth an studying evolution. Did phylogenetic effort to learn. trees break into more than two parts at one point? Why? [No, because once Perform “Taxonomy a trait evolved, the two groups (ones Checkpoint.” that possessed the trait and ones that did not) were on different Misconceptions: evolutionary paths; Yes, because Same as before. chimps, apes and humans all came from a common ancestor] Additionally, students might not understand the limits of What do you think binomial models a number of nomenclature means? [Two name – classification naming system that involves the systems would be of little use genus and species name of an to the scientific community. organism] We organized these buttons by traits. Taxonomists can also classify organisms by traits. How else do you think biologists can organize organisms? [Genetics; Habitat] What does hierarchy mean? [Putting things in order of rank; Power] What are the classification levels of the Linnaean system? [Kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, species] Obviously, not all of our classification systems are exactly alike. How do you think our models might differ from the Linnaean classification system used by the scientific community? [The scientific community uses a single standardized classification system, while we have constructed many conflicting systems; Our system lacks
Correlate the button activity to the Linnaean classification system. Encourage students that even if they might get a question wrong (like giving the wrong definition to a term), that they are at least putting forth an effort to learn. Perform “Taxonomy Checkpoint.” Misconceptions: Same as before. Additionally, students might not understand the limits of models – a number of classification systems would be of little use to the scientific community. Why do you think taxonomists classify organisms? [Facilitate scientific communication; To better study evolution, genetics and other biological scientists; For fun; Because they have nothing better to do] Try and think back to when you were studying evolution. Did phylogenetic trees break into more than two parts at one point? Why? [No, because once a trait evolved, the two groups (ones that possessed the trait and ones that did not) were on different evolutionary paths; Yes, because chimps, apes and humans all came from a common ancestor] What do you think binomial nomenclature means? [Two name naming system that involves the genus and species name of an organism] We organized these buttons by traits. Taxonomists can also classify organisms by traits. How else do you think biologists can organize organisms? [Genetics; Habitat] What does hierarchy mean? [Putting things in order of rank; Power] What are the classification levels of the Linnaean system? [Kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, species] Obviously, not all of our classification systems are exactly alike. How do you think our models might differ from the Linnaean classification system used by the scientific community? [The scientific community uses a single standardized classification system, while we have constructed many conflicting systems; Our system lacks Students will try their best to answer any questions regarding taxonomy.