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Pathfinders
The History of Classification
With your chosen animal/bird/insect, you need to produce a poster which shows the scientific classification for a group of living things.
You also need to find out how the current method of classifying organisms was developed.
Information to include is -
- science-based classification (level 1)
- explanation of how features are used to show relatedness (level 2)
- how features are used to show the degrees of relatedness (level 3)
- highlight species that have been moved recently on the basis of further evidence or discuss the problems with fossil species. (level 4)
Subject headings, keywords
taxonomy, scientific taxonomy, classification, animal you are studying
Dewey Numbers (use OPAC for specific animal etc)
570,
Reference:
Britannica Encyclopedias, World Book Encyclopedias, Oxford Junior encyclopedias, Raintree Illustrated Encyclopedia.
On-line databases and websites
Britannica Online http://www.tki.org.nz/r/epic/
login on the left side of the page under the EPIC heading
login - darfieldhs, password: 22darfieldhs.
Scroll down to blue highlighted links - 'Britannica online school edition K-12'
or the 'Discovering Collection' (also biographies and science plus more)
Choose either Primary, Secondary or High School levels or 'search all levels'The following websites have information on classification:
http://www.biology4kids.com/files/studies_taxonomy.htmlDarfield High School Library Team
