Week of 2/22

After preparing for and taking our evolution chapter test, our focus for the remainder of the week was to discover how scientists classify living organisms. We learned about the eight levels of classification (remember "Dear King Philip Came Over For Grape Soda?") and discussed how scientific names are formed. In our "Shape Island" activity, students had to assign organisms a scientific name based on their physical characteristics. Students had to use Latin and Greek roots, suffixes, and prefixes in order to design the scientific names of each.