Classification & Evolution
Lesson 3
Arrange your selection of
images into 5 groups.
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• How could you arrange them?
• Are there distinct similarities/ differences?
• Can you justify your choices?
Learning Objective
Describe how organisms are classified
Thinking points:
What is classification?
How can I classify an organism?
Can any organisms not be classified this
way
Success Criteria
Progress Step 2: Progress Step 3:
Progress Step 1:
Identify the criteria Explain why
Define the term used to classify scientists don’t
“classification”. organisms. classify viruses
using this system
Increasing Difficulty
Organisms must
be classified.
What is
classification and
how do we do it?
What is classification?
Classification is the organisation of living
things into groups according to their
similarities.
This could be based on:
• Physical traits
• Behaviour
What do these
• Diet organisms all
• DNA have in common?
LEARNING CHECKPOINT !
1. Write your own definition of the term
“classification”.
2. Describe how an organism could be
classified.
Progress Step 1:
Define the term
“classification”.
Scientists have tried to give every
species a name of its own
Similar things have been put into the
same group, this is called classification
The largest of these groups are called
kingdoms
There are 5 of these kingdoms
The Natural Classification
System
Kingdom Characteristic Example
Use your grid to write
down key information
about how organisms
are classified
The Natural Classification
System
Kingdom Characteristic Example
Cells do not have a All multicellular
cell wall. animals, including:
Animals Multicellular and feed
on other organisms.
jellyfish, worms,
arthropods, molluscs,
echinoderms, fish,
Heterotrophic feeders amphibia, reptiles,
(they have no birds and mammals
chlorophyll so don't
carry out
photosynthesis).
Add an
image to
this group !
The Natural Classification
System
Kingdom Characteristic Example
Cells have a cell wall. All green plants,
including: algae, ferns
Autotrophic- have and mosses (plants
Plants chlorophyll so
carry out
that do not produce
seeds); conifers and
photosynthesis. flowering plants
(plants that do
produce seeds)
Add an image
to this group !
The Natural Classification
System
Kingdom Characteristic Example
Cells have chitin cell Moulds, mushrooms,
walls. yeast
Fungi Reproduce using
spores rather than
seeds.
feed saprophytically,
Add an image
to this group !
The Natural Classification
System
Kingdom Characteristic Example
Have a cell wall but Bacteria, blue-green
not made from algae
cellulose.
Prokaryote
s Cells have no nucleus.
Add an image
to this group !
The Natural Classification
System
Kingdom Characteristic Example
Exist as single Amoeba,
cells or colonies Paramecium
Protoctists of single cells.
Have a nucleus
Add an image
to this group !
Perry’s convinced once organisms are
classified into their five groups, that is
sufficient.
Each organism within
the five groups are
virtually the same!
How far do you agree with Perry’s statement?
Why?
Task 2: Classifying
Organisms
Use the kingdom fact sheets you
have just made to complete
worksheet B1.1a.
Extension: Prepare a similar task for
your partner using different
organisms- you need to know the
answers and describe some features
to give them a clue!
1.
2.
Taxonomic 3.
System
4.
Which group is the
smallest?
5.
What is special
about this
particular group? 6.
7.
A species is a group of organisms that can
breed together to produce fertile offspring.
Ligers are infertile !
Remembering the
Taxonomic System…
Kids
Prefer
Candy
Over
Fancy
Green
Salad
LEARNING CHECKPOINT !
1. Write down a way to remember the order
of the taxonomic system
Should: - Explain what a species is.
Progress Step 2:
Identify the criteria
used to classify
organisms.
To which kingdom do you think
viruses belong?
There is no kingdom for viruses
Scientists don't think that viruses are
alive.
They enter living cells and make the
cell make new copies of the virus.
However, they don't grow or feed like
other organisms so we can not say
they are 'living'.
Success Criteria
Progress Step 3:
Progress Step 2: Use evolutionary
Progress Step 1: trees to investigate
Identify the criteria relationships
Define the term used to classify between organisms
“classification”. organisms. and suggest how/
why organisms
have evolved.
Increasing Difficulty
Review – What should I have learnt
Write down three things that you think
the person next to you should of learnt
this lesson
Extension : - Ask the person next to you
whether they agree!