Sample powerpoint - not complete - for teaching high school students about classification of living things and binomial nomenclature, including a brief mention of Carl Linnaeus.

1. Tenth Grade Biology
Amy Schaeffner

2. Old School Classification Rap
This was made when I was in high
school! Still pertinent today!

3. Classification of humans (Homo sapiens)
What family do we belong to? What other animals can you
name that are in that family? Can you think of some other
kingdoms? How many phyla do you think there are ?

4. Morphology
Anatomy
Development
Fossil Record
Molecular Data

5.  Father of
modern
taxonomy
 Built on
Aristotle’s
classification
system
 Developed
binomial
nomenclature

6. http://schoolpress.cdn.whipplehill.net/savcds318/6/files/2011
/02/Classification-of-Living-Things.pdf
http://www.sci.uidaho.edu/bionet/biol116/O1/presentations/T
2L4P1_Classification_of_Organisms.pdf
http://shelbybennett.blogspot.com/2011/01/fossil-record-
what-does-it-really-say.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jAGOibTMuU