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Activity 1
What’s in a name?
Objectives:
After performing this activity, you should be able to:
1. give the names of organisms as they are known in your community
2. recognize the need to have a system of classifying and naming organisms.
Materials Needed:
pictures of organisms
pencil or ball pen
sheet of paper
Procedure:
1. Get pictures of organisms from your teacher.
2. With your group discuss how each of these organisms is called in your
community. Accept any name which your group mates will give for an
organism. If you know other names by which an organism is called in another place,
include them. Write these on the sheet of paper.
3. Be ready when your teacher asks you to present your work to the class. Take note of
how the other groups named each of the organisms shown.
Q1. Are there organisms that others gave the same name to as your group did?
Give examples.
Q2. Are there organisms that others gave a different name to as your group did? What
are these organisms?
Q3. What can you say about your knowledge of the organisms before the
other groups’ presentations and the teacher’s discussion?
Conclusion: