AC9S7U01 Year 7 Science

Content descriptor investigate the role of classification in ordering and organising the diversity of life on Earth and use and develop classification tools including dichotomous keys

Elaborations

• • Elaboration observing and identifying the similarities and differences of particular features within and between groups of organisms
• • Elaboration creating and modifying a dichotomous key to classify organisms into groups and groups within groups
• • Elaboration naming and classifying species using scientific conventions from the Linnaean hierarchical classification system, such as kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, species
• • Elaboration considering the reasons for classifying living things, such as identification and communication
• • Elaboration examining how biological classification has changed over time through improvements in microscopy
• • Elaboration using provided dichotomous keys to identify organisms surveyed on a field trip
• • Elaboration investigating First Nations Australians’ systems of classifying living things and how these systems differ from those used by contemporary science