Since the link on the blog for your assignment yesterday was broken, we discussed how to distinguish between the following phyla of animals: porifera, cnidaria, platyhelminthes, annelida, mollusca and arthropoda.
We spent the bulk of the class period learning about dichotomous keys, starting with making a key for the students in the class. Next students practiced identifying various leaves using a dichotomous key. This will be a skill that we use on academic travel to identify the organisms in the pitfall traps and that we collect from kick netting.
On Monday/Tuesday we will wrap up the tree identification activity and you will create your own dichotomous key for eight organisms.
Lastly, here's a final reminder about the DBQ on page 201 that is due Monday October 3rd for E period (or October 4th for H period).
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