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University of Oregon

Computer Based Assessment: Taxonomy Table

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This website introduces a taxonomy or categorization of 28 innovative item types useful in computer-based assessment. The taxonomy describes "intermediate constraint" items. These item types have responses that fall somewhere between...
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Other

School Net: Designing Effective Projects : Marzano's New Taxonomy

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Learn about Marzano's New Taxonomy, a proposed alternative to Bloom's Taxonomy.
Unit Plan
Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Biology: Taxonomy

For Students 9th - 10th
In this multi-media module students derive the relationship between single-celled and multi-celled organisms and the increasing complexity of systems.
Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Taxonomy Standards

For Students 9th - 10th
What's in a name? Learn about how organisms are named and organized in this interactive tutorial.
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Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian National Zoo: Classification Systems

For Students 9th - 10th
A great overview of the science of classification. Topics addressed include summaries of the five kingdoms, the seven taxa, the definition of a species and the classification of the panda.
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TeachThought

Teach Thought: A Bloom's Digital Taxonomy for Evaluating Digital Tasks

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This article provides a visual explanation of Bloom's digital taxonomy.
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National Pest Managment Association

Pest World for Kids: Pest Taxonomy

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
During the first session of this two-session lesson, students use the different species represented in the PestWorldforKids.org's "Pest Guide" section to learn how living things are grouped together according to the characteristics they...
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Intel Corporation

Intel: Teach Program Designing Effective Projects: Marzano's New Taxonomy [Pdf]

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Learn about Marzano's New Taxonomy, made up of three systems and the Knowledge Domain, all of which are essential for thinking and learning. PDF (requires Adobe Reader).
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Episd: Phylogenetic Classification

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Identify the differences between Phylogenetic Classification and the Linnaean Classification systems. Recognize and know how to interpret a phylogenetic tree and a...
PPT
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Three Domains/ Five Kingdoms /Taxonomy: Lesson 1

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson presents the organizational categories of living things. It is 1 of 3 in the series titled "Three Domains/ Five Kingdoms /Taxonomy."
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City University of New York

Classification: Bringing Order Out of Chaos

For Students 9th - 10th
A self-directed module on all aspects of biological classifications that covers the species problem, diversity and chaos, cladistics, putting things in groups, and so on.
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Leaf Investigation and Classification

For Teachers K - 1st
Students will learn about classification of leaves by collecting a variety of leaves from home and working in small groups in the classroom to sort them into groups. Students will present their criteria for grouping the leaves to the class.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Episd: Linnaean Classification

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] An introduction to the method of biological classification developed by Carl Linnaean.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Taxonomy

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This StudyCards stack enables students to review the vocabulary used in studying taxonomy.
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Tree of Life Project

The Tree of Life Web Project

For Students 9th - 10th
The Tree of Life is a multi-authored, Internet distributed project containing information about phylogeny and biodiversity. The Tree of Life can be used to locate information about a particular group of organisms through their taxonomy.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Taxonomy: Major Groups

For Students 9th - 10th
Do you know that organisms are classified into different categories? This tutorial will show you how organisms are classified into three different groups called domains. Then see how those domains are broken down into kingdoms!
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ArtsNow

Arts Now Learning: Classification of Animals: "Connect Your Animal Show" [Pdf]

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders learn about animal classification by reviewing the taxonomy system, then looking at pictures of animals as if they were scientists, acting out an animal's characteristics, then classifying their animal.
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My Science Site

Middle School Science: Shoe Classification Lab [Pdf]

For Students 4th - 7th
This concise worksheet site will enable students to learn how to create a classification system and to understand the reasons for classification in science. Requires Adobe Reader.
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McGraw Hill

Mc Graw Hill Higher Education: Classification

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from McGraw-Hill Higher Education provides links to key terms, lecture notes, and readings on classification, as well as questions from Raven and Johnson's textbook reading on classification.
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Other

It's All About What's Inside. Classification and the Tree of Life [Pdf]

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this science lesson, students look at how animals have traditionally been classified in a tree of life diagram by examining the characteristics of plastic eggs. They then analyze the genetic code assigned for each egg and look for...
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Episd: Plant Classification

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Understand how plants are classified and be able to identify vascular and nonvascular plants.
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Classification of Organisms: Lesson 1

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson will introduce taxonomy and give an example by providing the scientific classification of an organism. It is 1 of 2 in the series titled "Classification of Organisms."
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Three Domains/ Five Kingdoms /Taxonomy: Lesson 3

For Students 7th - 8th
This lesson presents the organizational categories of living things. It is 3 of 3 in the series titled "Three Domains/ Five Kingdoms /Taxonomy."
PPT
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Three Domains/ Five Kingdoms /Taxonomy: Lesson 2

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson presents the organizational categories of living things. It is 2 of 3 in the series titled "Three Domains/ Five Kingdoms /Taxonomy."