Lesson Plan 34: Five
Kingdoms
First posted June 11, 2004 Last
updated June 11, 2004
( Grade Level 9-12)
Remember these points from the Lesson
Plan Homepage:
(1) These lesson plans are not rigid requirements,
but a starting point for the Nature Counselor's
plan for teaching a particular day's experience.
(2) The activity should be fun and emphasize
active learning on the student's part: ask a
question, don't just state a fact.
(3) You should employ hands-on as much as possible.
(4) Plan each session to also allow time for
making entries in the Nature
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Prior to the
session
(1) Review the section on the
Five Kingdoms. Presenting this
section well takes a bit of outside reading and good
botanical knowledge.
(2) Be ready with examples from Cazadero, know where
to find them, and plan where you will stop for discussions
and drawing.
Session
(1) Start with walking around camp, observing various
types of living things. Be sure to have them look at
members of each of the kingdoms.
*What kinds of life are at Cazadero?
* Can you name any of them?
* Can you place them in any categories?
(2) Find an area where they will be comfortable and
yet have access to some examples. Using the approach
of the Five Kingdoms page (pretending you are a budding
Lineaus, attempting to classify living things), start
with some of the old approaches (group things by flying,
movement or lack of it, etc).
* Do these classification schemes make sense?
* Do they help you to better understand nature?
(3) Try classifing things first into Plant and Animal.
Discuss the obvious criteria (movement vs. roots), the
try to find counter examples to this first, obvious
attempt to separate plants and animals.
* Does this system really work?
* Would it better to do it on the basis of eating
or producing food?
* Draw a plant and an animal, write down how they
get food.
(4) Now try to bring in as many of the other kingdoms
as you can. Mushrooms or fungus can be found in many
places in camp, slime in the stream, bacteria are everywhere.
* Discuss the place these have in the classification.
* Draw some examples, place them on a tree of life
diagram.
References
Five
Kingdoms
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