Description
Introduce your students to taxonomy and classification with this grouping activity. Have students group aliens based on their characteristics and then determine names for each group. This activity works really well as an intro activity. It is very easy to teach domains, kingdoms, etc after utilizing the activity in class.
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Grades
7th - 11th
Subjects
Standards
NGSSMS-LS4-2
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Pages
3
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Teaching Duration
50 minutes
Description
Introduce your students to taxonomy and classification with this grouping activity. Have students group aliens based on their characteristics and then determine names for each group. This activity works really well as an intro activity. It is very easy to teach domains, kingdoms, etc after utilizing the activity in class.
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Mostly used with 7th grade
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It was useful and engaging for the students. I had trouble printing part of it because of the size, but figured it out.
I used this with my lower Biology students. It was fun and the students found it engaging.
I used this as an introduction for Taxonomy and kingdoms.
My students loved using this resource. It was easy to follow and engaging.
Fun activity to review organism classification and to help with phylogenetic tree diagrams. Students enjoyed this alien activity.
Super easy to use, meets standards and engaging with students.
I really loved using this activity! Taxonomy has been challenging for my 6th graders and this activity was the perfect application of what they have learned. I was unable to print on a large size paper, so I reformatted the document to print on a smaller document. They had to use some other paper to fit all their writing, but it was still really effective. That was simply the printer functions set at my school. Highly recommend the product!
This was a great way to have students think about classification and reasoning behind their themes used.
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NGSSMS-LS4-2
Apply scientific ideas to construct an explanation for the anatomical similarities and differences among modern organisms and between modern and fossil organisms to infer evolutionary relationships. Emphasis is on explanations of the evolutionary relationships among organisms in terms of similarity or differences of the gross appearance of anatomical structures.
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