Integrated Project

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Integrated Project

• Classification of a Local Community
• By Shannon Holzwarth

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Project Overview

• Purpose
• To provide students with an opportunity to take
  on the role of a scientist as they explore their
  local environment
• To increase student knowledge of available
  technology and build computer skills necessary
  for future success
• To create a meaningful learning environment that
  will facilitate active participation, abstract
  thinking, and group collaboration
• To encourage environmental awareness and open
  their eyes to the miraculous beauty of nature
  that surrounds them on a daily basis

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Goals of Achievement

• Project requirements
• Design a universal classification method
• Design a spreadsheet for data collection using
  Excel
• Use internet and library resources to research
  historical and currently used classification
  methods
• Prepare research presentation using PowerPoint
• Design a research plan to carry out an
  investigation of local life forms, complete with
  a list of materials and equipment, as well as
  procedure
• Publish a book of local life using class data

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Classification Project

• Students are to work in teams to collect data on
  as many living things as they can find within
  their local environment
• They will actually become scientists as they work
  together, problem solving their way to discovery,
  in a contest to see which team can find the most
  living things
• This Project is extremely open-ended, allowing
  each team the freedom of designing their own
  procedures for data collection
• Materials will be provided upon request, based on
  availability
• The final result will be the publication of a
  book dedicated to students discoveries of their
  local environment, including digital photographs
  of living things, taken by the students
  themselves

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Technology to be Used

• Computer
• Excel
• Organized data collection in spreadsheet form
• PowerPoint
• Presentation of research findings
• Internet
• Gathering of research information
• Digital cameras
• Collecting images of life forms found
• Microscopes
• Finding life forms unable to be seen by the naked
  eye

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Available materials

• Digital cameras
• Insect nets
• Magnifying glass
• Microscopes
• Agre plates
• Fish nets
• Containers
• Rulers

• Baskets
• Field guides
• Goggles
• traps
• binoculars
• Shovels
• Strainers
• Triple beam balance

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Major Understandings

• How do we classify living things?
• Linnaean/Binomial nomenclature
• According to similarities among chemical and
  physical characteristics
• Cladistics
• According to genetic similarity (DNA)
• Phylogeny
• According to ancestry and relatedness

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Major Major Understandings

• Why do we classify living things?
• Human nature to organize sets of data and give
  names to the unknown
• Aids in discovery of new species
• Provides easily attainable knowledge for
• Medical uses
• Safety
• Environmental analysis of species diversity and
  richness
• Gaining knowledge for recreational purposes

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Contact Information

• Shannon Holzwarth
• E-mail
• Holzyrae17_at_yahoo.com

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Presenting the Kingdoms

• Sample Presentation

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Animal kingdom

• Multicellular
• Eukaryotic
• No cell wall
• Heterotrophic
• Absorb nutrients

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Plant Kingdom

• Multicellular
• eukaryotic
• Have a cell wall
• Autotrophic
• Make nutrients

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Fungi Kingdom

• Multicellular and unicellular
• Eukaryotic
• Some have cell walls
• Heterotrophic
• absorb nutrients

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Protist Kingdom

• Multicellular and unicellular
• Eukaryotic
• Some have cell walls
• Heterotrophic and autotrophic
• Make, absorb and ingest food

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Archaebacteria and Bacteria

• Unicellular
• Prokayotic
• No cell wall
• heterotrophic

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Web Resources

• http//www.amnh.org/exhibitions/Fossil_Halls/clad
  istics.html
• American Museum of Natural History- Understanding
  Cladistics
• http//www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/orchid/classifying.h
  tml
• Orchid hunter classification game
• http//www.learner.org/channel/courses/essential/
  life/session2/closer1.html
• Linnaean taxonomy
• http//www.informationclub.com/encyclopedia/s/sc/
  scientific_classification_1.html
• Encyclopedia information on classification and
  cladistics
• http//sln.fi.edu/tfi/units/life/classify/classif
  y.html

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Sample Classification