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Siemens Science Day: Life Science: The Key to It All
In this hands-on science activity, students will create their own unique creatures as well as dichotomous keys so that classmates can identify the creature.
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Jewel of the Earth
Collect and analyze organisms and use a dichotomous key to identify and classify the organisms. Research the evolutionary history of organisms.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Identifying Macroinvertebrates to Determine Health of Aquatic Ecosystem
In this hands on activity students will learn how to identify basic macroinvertebrate using a dichotomous key. They will complete a chart used by the MPCA and we will discuss why an ecosystem may not be healthy or not.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Classifying Conundrum
For this activity, 4th graders will identify plant characteristics from different environments.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Investigating Plant Life in Our Nature Center
In this Nature Center activity, students will apply knowledge from our classifying living things unit. They will compare what they already know about leaves to actual leaf samples. After collecting 5 leaves and keeping them in a journal,...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Identifying Plant Family Characteristics
Young scholars make observations of similarities and differences between three types of garden plants to determine why they are grouped together in one plant family.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Mn Step: Minn Aqua Minnesota Fish Identification
Describes a lesson in which students sort fish cards into groups based on the characteristics of the fish. The MinnAqua resources referred to can now be found at...