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Taxonomy Webquest

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Link: http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/classifi cation/Animalia.html
Collection:
From this URL students were able navigate through various other URLs especially Wikipedia.
Author: James Louis
Media: Webware
Cost: Free
Subjects: Biology
Types: Visualization or Animation, Graphing, Modeling, or Mapping
Description
of resource:
Students struggle with biological taxonomy ended with students creating their own taxonomy, from species to kingdom, of an organism of their own interest. They went to an assigned website to acquire basic binomial nomenclature and a picture of their organism.
Posted to site: 10/31/2006
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