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Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Classification

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
This lesson will explain the reasons that society groups and classifies. The lesson has a hands-on component that helps students connect everyday grouping with the way that scientists group and classify all living organisms.
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Handout
CPALMS

Florida State University Cpalms: Florida Students: Diagramming Diversity Ii

For Students 9th - 10th
Expand understanding of classification with this tutorial designed to help you learn how living organisms are classified according to their evolutionary history.
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Lesson Plan
Michigan Reach Out

Reach Out Michigan: Being Alive

For Teachers K - 1st
This site provides a basic lesson plan that classifies objects as alive or not alive. Good for early elementary.
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Unit Plan
Other

Science4 Us: Animals

For Students Pre-K - 1st
In online and offline activities, students broaden their understanding of animals by learning to identify and classify animals into six categories: mammals, birds, fish, amphibians, reptiles, and invertebrates.
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Other

Alternative Classifications of Life

For Students 9th - 10th
The Linnaean system (1758) classified all macroscopic living organisms as either Animals or Plants, based on whether they moved [anima, with a soul] or not. Thus, Fungi were included as plants. With the invention of the microscope and...