1. Classification

2. Activity Sort 10 random items into THREE categories of your choosing
Complete the category chart
Each group explains to the class what criteria they chose to group the items

3. Activity
Classify the same 10 items based on the following set of criteria The difference between sorting and classifying is that classifying involves a set of rules
Un digitus
Duo digitus
Trium digitorius
List the items
Items are not wider than a single pointer finger
List them items
Items here are wider than the pointer finger but less than pointer finger and middle finger together
Items here are wider than the pointer finger and middle finger together

4. Activity
With your group, come up with a working definition for sorting and classification
What is sorting?
What is classifying?

5. Sorting
Sort
noun \ˈsȯrt\ -a group of people or things that have some shared quality
A particular kind or type of person or thing
A person of a particular type
The act of separating things and putting them in a particular order
The act of sorting things

6. Sorting Student Sorting Practice Classify by:
Height
Hair color
What other ways could you be sorted?

7. Classification
clas·si·fi·ca·tion noun \ˌkla-sə-fə-ˈkā-shən\ - the act or process of putting people or things into groups based on ways that they are alike -An arrangement of people or things into groups based on ways that they are alike

8. Classification Student Classification Practice Classify by:
Height ( 5 feet and under and 5’1 and up)
Hair color (light hair and dark hair)
Male vs. female
What other ways could you be classified?

9. Classification vs. Sorting
Grouping information, objects, or organisms into categories that have been fixed based on a set of rules
The outcome will ALWAYS be the same
In science, Taxonomy is a classification system
Sorting
Organizing information, objects, or organisms into groups based on criteria that are selected by an individual

10. Taxonomy Classification system that
uses characteristics that are similar and dissimilar to group organisms and give them their names
Example
Homo sapiens

11. Taxon
A taxon is a group of related organisms

12. Binomial Nomenclature
Two part naming system (bi = 2 ; nom= name)
Naming system
Genus name followed by the species name
Species is capitalized and the genus is lower case
Always italicized, sometimes abbreviated.
Homo sapiens
H. sapiens

13. How to remember the taxonomic system:
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15. Cell Phone Activity 3 Minutes
Sort the cell phone pictures into chronological order
What “new features” appeared first, second, third, etc.