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2. Shoe Sorting

3. TALK Describe your system. What did you do? Why?
Could you have organized your shoes any other way?

4. Classification

5. What is classification?
Have you ever used the word CLASSIFY?
What does it mean? Talk in your groups.
Sorting things into groups

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7. Examples
When you go to the grocery store, how do you know how to find the milk?
When you go to the video game store, how do you know how to find the game you are looking for?

8. Scientists believe that there are over 10 million different kinds of lifeforms, or species, on Earth.
Imagine trying to study and understand the lives, and behaviors of so many different kinds of organisms.
In order to make their job easier, scientists classify living things into groups based on how they are the same and how they are different.

9. Why classify anything?
Imagine dumping all of your clothes into a bin.

10. Classification chart Definition - Why? Uses Examples?
Organizing things into groups based on characteristics they share
Why?
Classification makes it easier to study ways that things are similar and different
Uses
To study and identify species
Examples?