2. So what’s up?
Right now we’re working
on a classification PBL.
What is PBL? It’s a type of
In this unit, students will student centered learning
learn about classifying that allows students (with
things and create their help) to create their own
own organism objectives and goals . In
classification system. our class, we’ll come up
with classroom goals and
Hopefully you’ll see the the groups will create their
benefits at home when the own plans to reach them.
kids try to come up with
solutions to everyday
problems!

3. Standards of the Unit
- Students must demonstrate
Productive Thinking Talents
-Students will learn to work in
groups
- demonstrate an understanding
for what classification is
- demonstrate an understanding
for why animals are classified into
different systems
- demonstrate proper
classification

4. Benefits of the Unit
Students will be arranged into groups so that each group
consists of students with multiple intelligences to help the
struggling learners. This is beneficial to the students
because they will learn how to work with different types of
learners. Learning about the different classification of
animals is beneficial to a student as well because it is the
foundation in most higher-level sciences classes. The use of
PowerPoint will also introduce the students to technology
and for those who have already used PowerPoint, it will
broaden the amount of knowledge that they already know
about the program.

5. Unit Objectives
- Students will differentiate between the previous five-
kingdom and current six-kingdom classification systems.
- Students will summarize the information that they collect
from the different pictures of the animals
- Students will classify the animals according to their
different classification kingdoms systems
- Students will constantly be making observations
throughout the lesson about the
different classification systems
- Students will learn to work in groups

6. How we will help
Your Role Our Roles
The role of the parent is to keep The role of the teacher is to
on top their student and confirm discuss classification in general.
that their student in completing Ask the students what we mean
all the work that is required of by classification and why we
him or her. Make sure that the classify things. For example, why
student is actively participating in do we classify certain objects as
his or her groups work by asking tools, others as food and so on.
various questions ( what they Establish that classification is the
learned today, who did they work arrangement of objects, ideas, or
with, etc.) Keep up with due dates information into groups and
and make sure student is giving makes things easy to find,
full effort identify, talk about, and study.

7. Their Roles!
Students will be required to participate in the different
activities set up in the unit. From completing a 3,2,1 exit slip,
to (if time permits) making a slideshow presentation
illustrating the new classification system, inserting actual
pictures of various objects taken with a digital camera, and
later presenting to the class in a group. Students will need to
describe the classification of animals and differentiate
between the previous five-kingdom and current six-kingdom
classification systems. Students will also be required to work
in groups to research classification information about a
selected group of animals.

8. Curriculum Framing
Questions
1. What is the life cycle?
2. What can animals learn from undergoing the life cycle?
3. How is taxonomy used to classify animals?
4. What are the six kingdom classification systems?
5. What are adaptive behaviors?