This lab is appropriate for an accelerated middle school or high school science class on biology. This requires students to both create and use a dichotomous key, includes pre-lab questions, and conclusion questions. There is a teacher answer key provided and the lab is framed in a context that students can understand.
dichotomous key, kingdom, class, family, phylum, genus, species, order, classification, binomial nomenclature, Carolus Linnaeus