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These 71 slides will captivate your students with stunning photos and diagrams to provide an in-depth study of "The Classification of Living Organisms" for your biology students. Choose to use the traditional printable version, or the paperless, digital Google Apps version. The PowerPoint covers all the topics you would expect to find in a traditional high school biology textbook, including Carolus Linnaeus, binomial nomenclature, homology, phylogeny, cladograms, the 6-kingdom classification system, dichotomous keys, and so much more. Please see the detailed list of topics below.
This resource is perfect for traditional classroom settings, distance learning, flipped classrooms, or for students in 1:1 classrooms.
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What is included in this resource?
- An 71-Slide PowerPoint Presentation (Includes traditional PowerPoint, PDF, and Google slides)
- Editable and printable 10-page set of lecture notes for the teacher
- Editable and printable 12-page guided notes outline for the student
- Paperless Digital Version (not editable) for use in Google Drive, Google Classroom, and /or Microsoft OneDrive
- Teacher Guide for google Apps
The Power Point is designed to hold the attention of your students. The 71 slides are bright and colorful and contain loads and loads of visually appealing pictures and images. Animations and transitions are included to allow you to control the pace of the lesson.
Your students are going to love using the outline as you teach. It allows the student more freedom to listen, think, and ask questions during note-taking. The notes are also perfect for students with disabilities or IEP's.
Topics covered are:
- The need for a system of classification.
- Summary of Darwin's Theory of Evolution.
- Definition of taxonomy.
- Early attempts at classification: Aristotle, misuse of common names.
- Linnaeus: Seven levels of classification, binomial nomenclature, definition of species, the rules of binomial nomenclature.
- Modern taxonomy: phylogeny, phylogenetic tree, reading a phylogenetic tree, practice questions.
- Modern taxonomy is based on: structural similarity, cellular organization, evolutionary relationships, biochemical similarities, genetic similarities, embryological similarities.
- Homologous, analogous, and vestigial structures: Definitions and examples.
- Cladistics and cladograms: Definitions, clades, out-groups, in-groups, shared characters, derived characters, and examples.
- Cladistics and cladograms: Students will look at 2 different cladograms and answer questions.
- History of the Kingdoms: 2-kingdom system, 3-kingdom system, 5-kingdom system, and the 6-kingdom system of classification.
- Three domain system of classification.
- Comparison of kingdoms in the 6-kingdom system.
- For each kingdom, students learn the characteristics, cell types, distinguishing cell structures, cellular organization, method of food-getting. Many pictures are included as examples.
- Mechanisms that serve as barriers between the species.
- The dichotomous key to classification: Students will learn how to use a dichotomous key; Students will classify the leaves of 7 trees using a dichotomous key.
This PowerPoint and Notes set is so complete and comprehensive it can be used in place of a textbook. If you are already using a textbook you love, the PowerPoint and notes are editable and are easily incorporated into your existing lessons and units.
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