This Boom Deck will complement your lessons on taxonomy and binomial nomenclature. The goal is for students to see the Latin names for organisms and discuss the advantages of having them and appropriate times to use them. The deck begins by introducing Carolus Linnaeus and Binomial Nomenclature and then presents 18 organisms and their common and scientific names. Students are simply asked to identify one or the other. If you have time, analyzing the Latin words/word parts helps students unde