Objectives:
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Students will learn about taxonomy.
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Students will learn how to classify some marine plants and animals.
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Students will learn how to match a pharmaceutical list to the classifieds.
Unit Proceeds for one month to first quarter
Materials:
Sea animals (2 of each if possible): sea stars, crabs, clams, shark eggs, worms, barnacles, killifish, algae, horseshoe crabs, etc.
20-gal. fish tank
Live rock or gravel
whisper pump/filter
charcoal
sea water
Vocabulary List
Plant
Porifera
Amphibians
Reptiles
Animal
Coelenterata (Cnidaria)
Monerans
Echinodermata
Protistans
Mollusca
Invertebrates
Annelida
Mollusca
Arthropoda
Vertebrates
Taxonomy
Kingdom
Phylum
Class
Order
Family
Genus
Species
Race
Students will learn how living things are classified. They will document the taxonomical properties of the animals in the tank as they study them, daily. As students progress, they will make a chart, listing the known pharmaceuticals.
Assignments/Evaluations:
Students, using their charts, will match as many of the pharmaceuticals as they can, to the classified animals
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