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Plant and Animal Classification Step 3 Purpose: Explain how similarities are the basis for classification With a partner (or by yourself, if no one is available to work with you), get a bowl of beads, gems or buttons and sort them into containers. Write about the activity in your science notebook. Be sure to answer the following questions: 1. How did you divide your buttons or beads? What characteristics did you use? 2. Why did you decide to sort them in that way? Then find another partner group that has the same items that you sorted. Share how you sorted yours and have them share how they sorted theirs. Write about this answering the following questions: 3. Did they sort them the same way? If it is different, write about how they sorted theirs. If it is the same way you sorted, could they be sorted a different way? How?
Now you may choose to do either #1 OR #2: 1. Read pages 24-27 from the textbook Life's Structure and Function. You may get this text from your teacher or acess it online using the codes your teacher has given you. Do the Self-check Quiz. Then complete one of the following worksheets.
2. Use the following websites to find information about why and how we classify. Families - Classification of Plants and Animals Watch Brain Pop - Six Kingdoms Complete one of the following worksheets. You need to get these from your teacher.
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