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- Title
The Tree of Animal Life.
- Authors
Braude, Stan
- Abstract
The article presents a classroom activity which will teach school children about animal diversity. To begin, give each pair of students a selection of toy animals and have them organize the animals into groups based on criteria of their choosing, labeling each group and explaining their reasons for creating it. As the class discusses their selected groups, the conversation usually leads to the criteria they used to form the groups as well as to questions about the criteria scientists use to classify animals. The core idea of this exercise is for students to understand that animal diversity goes way beyond mammals and that related animal species are classified together into groups such as mammals, fish, birds and many more.
- Subjects
ANIMAL diversity; CLASSROOM activities; ZOOLOGY education -- Activity programs; BIODIVERSITY; SCHOOL children; ACTIVITY programs in biology education; ACTIVITY programs in education; SCIENCE education (Elementary); ELEMENTARY education
- Publication
Science & Children, 2007, Vol 45, Issue 1, p42
- ISSN
0036-8148
- Publication type
Article