Monday 19 September 2011
Topics: Classification of Life
OBJECTIVES
DO NOW
 Describe the defining
 Do you feel prepared for
characteristics of each main
the presentation?
category of life.
 What did your group do in
order to prepare?
 If you were to do this
project again, what would
you do differently?
HOMEWORK
AGENDA
• Read section 18-3
• Classification
(Kingdoms and
presentations
Domains). Use this
information, along with
your notes, to complete
the graphic organizer
Bacteria Domain
ARCHAEA
SULFOLOBUS
ACIDOCALDARIUS
OBJECTIVES
 Describe the defining characteristics of each main category of life.
Archaea life
Characteristics
Made of cell
•Extreamophiles from archaea are prokaryotic
•Extreamophiles from archaeaare unicellular
Reproduce
• extreamophiles from archaea reproduce asexually
Have genetic code
•Extreamophiles from archaea keep their DNA
floating within the cell
Use material and
energy
Respond to their
environment
•Extreamophiles from archaea are both
heterotrophic and autotrophic(they do not use
photosynthesis some use sulfur and iron)
•Extreamophiles from archaea live in extreme
environments such as acid, freezing water and
boiling water!
OBJECTIVES
 Describe the defining characteristics of each main category of life.
Sulfolobus Acidocaldarius
Domain= Archaea
Kingdom= Crenarchaeota
Phylum= Crenarchaeota
Class= Thermoprotei
Order= Sulfolobales
Family= Sulfolobacaea
Genus= Sulfolobus
Species= Acidocaldarius
OBJECTIVES
 Describe the defining characteristics of each main category of life.
Interesting Facts
 They need the harsh conditions to interact/ reproduce
 They live in acid
OBJECTIVES
 Describe the defining characteristics of each main category of life.
Eukaryote Domain
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Very diverse
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Only commonality is
cells contain a
nucleus
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Unicellular or
multicellular
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Includes 4 kingdoms
OBJECTIVES
 Describe the defining characteristics of each main category of life.
Plant Kingdom
Protist Kingdom
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Eukaryotic
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Most are unicellular
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Some autotrophic,
some heterotrophic
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Most are aquatic
OBJECTIVES
 Describe the defining characteristics of each main category of life.
Jaleel Davis, Nelly Formilius, Mark Variste, Uriel Girma(aka
E-Dubs)
OBJECTIVES
 Describe the defining characteristics of each main category of life.
 Fungi are eukaryotes
 Fungi are mostly multi-cellular but sometimes
unicellular
 Fungi are part of the Eukarya domain
 Fungi are heterotrophs. Most fungi feed on decaying
matter but few feed by capturing live animals such as
pleurotus streatus
OBJECTIVES
 Describe the defining characteristics of each main category of life.
Scientific classification:
Kingdom: Fungi
Phylum: Basidiomycota
Class: Agaricomycetes
Order: Agaricales
Family: Amanitaceae
Genus: Amanita
Species: A. Muscaria
Binomial: Amanita muscaria
2 key facts: its poisonous , was used as an insecticide, when
sprinkled in milk
 2 closely related species: Amanita australis, Agaricus campestris
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OBJECTIVES
 Describe the defining characteristics of each main category of life.
By: Nicole Mulone, Damarys Caridad,
Antonio Belizaire, Joas Lormil
OBJECTIVES
 Describe the defining characteristics of each main category of life.
The Animal Kingdom
 1. Organisms in the Animal Kingdom are
eukaryotic.
 2. Organisms in the Animal Kingdom are
multicellular.
 3. The Animal Kingdom is in the Eukarya
Domain.
 4. Organisms in the Animal Kingdom are
heterotrophs.
OBJECTIVES
 Describe the defining characteristics of each main category of life.
The Animal Kingdom
Deer
Cat
OBJECTIVES
 Describe the defining characteristics of each main category of life.
Bear
Tigers
 5. The latin name for tiger is Panthera Tigris.
 6. Tiger falls under the category Mammalia.
 7. Tigers can grow up to eleven feet and
three of nine tiger species have gone extinct.
 8. Tigers are closely related to cats and snow
leopards.
OBJECTIVES
 Describe the defining characteristics of each main category of life.
Tigers
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OBJECTIVES
 Describe the defining characteristics of each main category of life.
Exit ticket
What went well in your group’s
presentation? Is this something you
anticipated?
 What do you think you could have
worked on more to make things run
more smoothly? What would you have
done to change it?
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OBJECTIVES
 Describe the defining characteristics of each main category of life.
Tuesday 20 September 2011
Topics: Classification of Life
DO NOW
 How are the domains
Bacteria and Archaea
different? Similar?
 How are the kingdoms
Plantae and Fungi
different?
OBJECTIVES
 Explain how a new species
is placed into the
appropriate categories.
 Follow a dichotomous key
in order to classify a
species.
HOMEWORK
Read pages 448-450 and
answer the 6 Section
Assessment questions
in your notebook.
AGENDA
• Summarize presentations
• What is a dichotomous
key?
• Create your own
dichotomous key!
Fish
Birds
By shreena, nahum, alondra, and charlie
OBJECTIVES
 Describe the defining characteristics of each main category of life.
Characteristics of Life
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Made of cells
Reproduce
Have a genetic code (DNA)
Use energy and materials
Respond to their environment
Are birds prokaryotic or eukaryotic?
Are they unicellular, multicellular, or both?
• Birds are eukaryotes which means they have a nucleus
• Birds are multicellular
OBJECTIVES
 Describe the defining characteristics of each main category of life.
Do they reproduce sexually or asexually – or some of
both?
Birds reproduce sexually
Where do they keep their DNA? Inside a nucleus within a cell
or just floating within the cell?
 The DNA is inside the nucleus
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Are they autotrophs or heterotrophs?
How do they make or get food?
• They are heterotrophs
• Use their beaks to pick things
In what kinds of environments do these organisms live?
Give examples of how these organisms can respond to their
environment.
They live in natural ecosystems and human society in many different ways
They fly to the south when its winter
In what kinds of environments do these organisms live?
Give examples of how these organisms can respond
to their environment.
They live in natural ecosystems and human
society in many different ways
 They fly to the south when its winter
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OBJECTIVES
 Describe the defining characteristics of each main category of life.
Kingdom: AnimaliaPhylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Subclass: Neornithes
Infraclass: Neognathae
Order: Apodiformes
Family: Trochilidae
Genus: Calypte
Species: C. Costae
Costa Hummingbird
It is a type of hummingbird.
 It's a very small hummingbird, at maxium it can
be 3 to 3 1/2 inches at full size.
 The feathers on its face is bright purple.
 They are found in southwestern united states,
California, and Mexico.
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OBJECTIVES
 Describe the defining characteristics of each main category of life.
Presentation Summary
LIFE
Bacteria
Archaea
Protists
Eukaryotes
Fungi
OBJECTIVES
Explain how a new species is placed into the appropriate categories.
Follow a dichotomous key in order to classify a species.
Plants
Animals
Dichotomous keys!
A method to classify organisms based
upon physical traits
 Series of paired statements that are
opposites
 Ultimately results in the identification of
the organism in question
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OBJECTIVES
Explain how a new species is placed into the appropriate categories.
Follow a dichotomous key in order to classify a species.
Dichotomous keys!
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Everybody take off 1 shoe and place it on the
kidney table (That’s right. I went there.)
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Take 1 minute to silently write all possible
traits that can be used to classify the shoes
(e.g. laces, flats, patterns, etc)
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Take 2 minutes to discuss with your elbow
partner the traits you brainstormed
OBJECTIVES
Explain how a new species is placed into the appropriate categories.
Follow a dichotomous key in order to classify a species.
Dichotomous keys!
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Why do you think it’s important that the
paired statements are opposites?
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Which types of traits do you think should
appear first in a dichotomous key?
OBJECTIVES
Explain how a new species is placed into the appropriate categories.
Follow a dichotomous key in order to classify a species.
Dichotomous keys!
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More practice…
◦ Individually, or with a partner, you will be able to
classify leaf samples by following a dichotomous key
◦ Turn to page 462-463
◦ Classify the leaves pictured by following the key on
the left
◦ I will draw samples for any potentially unknown
vocabulary on the board
◦ This sheet will be collected as classwork!
OBJECTIVES
Explain how a new species is placed into the appropriate categories.
Follow a dichotomous key in order to classify a species.
Dichotomous keys!
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With a partner, you will CREATE a dichotomous key
that can be followed
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PROTOCOL:
1. Observe your specimens and brainstorm a list of ALL
traits that applies to them
2. Decide upon the order of which traits to categorize
your specimens and move them accordingly (like we did
with the shoes)
3. Make a poster of your key (either style of representing
the info – the way it is in the book or how we did it on
the board)
4. Draw and label the specimen at the end of each
classification pathway, and put your names on the poster
OBJECTIVES
Explain how a new species is placed into the appropriate categories.
Follow a dichotomous key in order to classify a species.
EXIT TICKET
(you may nibble on your specimens while writing)
What was challenging about creating your
own key after following one that was
already made?
 What might make this process difficult in
terms of classifying a species in real life?
 How might a scientist avoid the difficulty?
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Thursday 22 September 2011
Topics: Classification of Life
DO NOW:
OBJECTIVES
Before fully reading Prompt 1,
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what do you think the question is
about? What indications did you
have?
 Read the entire Prompt 1.
Underline what you believe are
key verbs, and circle what you
believe are important buzzwords.
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Effectively write an
MCAS response about
how to classify a species.
HOMEWORK
AGENDA
• Create a study guide
• Practice MCAS writing
sheet to use during a
prompts with Mr. Lerner!
review game tomorrow
(quest is 2nd half of class)
Brainstorm
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With your elbow partner, take 2 minutes to share what you
identified in the Do Now as key verbs and buzzwords.
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KEY VERBS:
Identify
Justify
Describe
Explain
Determine
◦ BUZZWORDS:
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Closely related
Classification
Sea lions
Two types of evidence
Individually…
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SILENTLY take 3 minutes to flip through
your notes and jot down (in the margins
of the prompt) any information that you
feel is relevant to answer the question.
Types of Responses:
IDENTIFY
1.
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JUSTIFY (2-3 sentences)
2.
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3.
Name something (1 sentence max)
Reason for your answer
DESCRIBE vs. EXPLAIN. (longer
explanation)
1. Describe – give characteristics
2. Explain – answers ‘how’ or ‘why’
4.
DETERMINE
1. Combo of describe/explain
Final steps…
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Re-organize the notes that you took in
the margin to correspond to which
portion of the prompt it will answer.
◦ For example, all information that is
RELEVANT to part 1 should be separated
from all info for part 2.
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AS YOUR EXIT TICKET:
◦ Use all these steps to write out a FULL
response to Prompt 1.