DO NOW• Name three things that are organized to make

life easier. – Ex. Sports teams are organized by location.

Early classification

• Aristotle grouped everything intosimple groups such as animals or plants

• He then grouped animals according to if they had blood or didn’t have blood, and if they had live young or laid eggs, and so on…

Binomial Nomenclature

• Developed by Carolus Linnaeus

• Swedish Biologist 1700’s

• Two-name system

• Genus and species named using Latin or Greek words

Mnemonic Device• Create and Illustrate a Mneumonic Device for the 7 levels of

classification– Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order Family Genus Species

• Kings Play Chess On Fine Grain Sand-Your Mneumonic Device should be:1. Titled “Linnaeus Taxonomic Classification System Mnemonic

Device2. School Appropriate (I will be displaying these around the room)3. Colored4. Creative (Do not just settle on the first one you can think of, this

step should take time)5. Your Drawing should be detailed and it should show a scene of

your sentence (I understand that we are not all artist, but this is where Effort plays a huge role!)

Example

• King Phillip Came Over For Good Spaghetti

Do Now 12-4-13 LS

Fill in the BlankThe Taxonomic Classification system was created in the 1700s by a Swedish Biologist named _____________ _____________. The system is made up 7 categories called ________. Kingdom is the most ____________ taxa while species is the most ___________ taxa. The two name scientific naming system of organisms is based on Greek and Latin words. This naming system is called _______________ _________________.

Taxonomic Classification Demo• Books represent the 6 Kingdoms • Chapters represent Phylum• Sections represent Class• Page represents Order• Paragraph represents Family• Sentence represents Genus• Word represents Species

Classification Video

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKwOlAqQoLk&list=PL68043E5115509A40

• Mahalo on Classification

Classification Pyramid

Step 1: On one half of your paper you are going to draw a pyramid representing the 7 taxa of Linnaeus’ Taxonomic classification system

KingdomPhylum

Class

Order

Family

GenusSpecies

Step 2: Choose one of the following organisms.- Lion- Palm Tree- E. coli bacteria- Humpback Whale- Eastern Diamondback Rattlesnake- Honey Bee

Step 3: Copy the classification of your organism into the pyramid you drew. Ex. Kingdom (Animalia)

Step 4: Draw and color your organism and outline your pyramid in a color of your choice. These will be displayed around the classroom.

Quick Quiz• Using your mnemonic device (you may use

mine if you’d like), list the taxa that make up Linnaeus’ Taxonomic Classification System in order from general to specific.

Your Mnemonic Device Taxa that make up the Taxonomic System (From general to specific)

African Lion Pine Tree HumpbackWhale

Eastern Diamondback Rattlesnake

Honey Bee

Animalia Plantae Animalia Animalia Animalia

Chordata Pinophyta Chordata Chordata Arthropoda

Mammalia Pinopsida Mammalia Reptilia Insecta

Carnivora Pinales Cetacea Squamata Apidae

Felidae Pinaceae Balaenopteridae Viperidae Apini

Panthera Pinus Megatera Crotalus Apis

Leo Densiflora Novaeangliae Adamanteus Dorsata

Kingdom

Phylum

Class

Order

Family

Genus

Species

DO NOWPlease Clear off your

desk/table of everything except a piece of white

lined paper and a pencil/pen