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This document provides a timeline and overview of lessons for a classification unit in Year 7 biology. It involves 5 lessons over a 2 week cycle. Lessons cover establishing group contracts, researching characteristics of living things, identifying the 6 kingdoms of biology, explaining levels of biological classification including binomial nomenclature. Students complete tasks identifying kingdoms, their characteristics, and constructing dichotomous keys. Benchmarks and online units reinforce concepts. Lessons revisit contracts and rubrics, explain classification uses, and provide opportunities for workshops if needed.

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Project Calendar - Classification

This document provides a timeline and overview of lessons for a classification unit in Year 7 biology. It involves 5 lessons over a 2 week cycle. Lessons cover establishing group contracts, researching characteristics of living things, identifying the 6 kingdoms of biology, explaining levels of biological classification including binomial nomenclature. Students complete tasks identifying kingdoms, their characteristics, and constructing dichotomous keys. Benchmarks and online units reinforce concepts. Lessons revisit contracts and rubrics, explain classification uses, and provide opportunities for workshops if needed.

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Classification - Timeline

Please Note: This calendar is a guideline - Yr 7 have 5 lessons across the cycle. Each class will have their lessons on different days but all yr 7
classes should be approximately at the same point by the end of each 2 week cycle.

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday


● Entry event - ● Group contracts ● Benchmark 1 -
● https://www.yout established and Individual worksheet
ube.com/watch? submitted given for homework
v=5YLZ9jeTyjM ● Teacher checks -summative
● Introduce driving know /needs to ● Education perfect
question know(NTK) - forms a unit(s) set from
● Group students summary of NTK to ClassifcationNo3
● contracts establish workshops ● Why classify?
● Know / Needs to ● Students start Examples of where
Know researching “ classification is used
● Give out rubric & Characteristics of in everyday life and
discuss end products. Living things - MRS why.
GREN” ● Explain how and why
● How do we know if classification is used
something is living? in biology.
● Workshop if
necessary

● Check Homework ● Revisit contract and


● Describe the type of rubric
features used by ● Hand in TASK 1 at
biologists to classify end of lesson
● TASK 1 - Identify the ● Levels of biological
6 kingdoms and their classification system -
characteristics used in The Linnaean system
Biology as the first ● Define a species. Why
classification grouping are a horse and
● Benchmark 2 donkey different
● Complete species if the produce
setEducation Perfect babies together?
units ● Explain the binomial
naming system used

● Work on Task 2 ● Work on Task 2 ● Hand in TASK 2 at


● Possible workshop ● Possible workshop end of lesson.
● Benchmarks 3 & 4 ● Benchmarks 3 & 4 ● What is a key?
● Complete education ● Complete education ● What is a
perfect set units perfect set units dichotomous key?
● Collect photos of ● Describe and use
organsims for Task 3 Tabular dichotomous
keys and Branching or
tree dichotomous
keys
● Benchmark 5
● Complete education
Perfect set units.

● Construct keys - Task ● Hand in TASK 3 at the


3 end of lesson
● Identify the features ● evaluation.
used.
● Workshop if
necessary

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