Wednesday, April 21, 2010

Kingdoms Webquest

You will be learning about and researching the 6 Kingdoms: Eubacteria, Archaebacteria, Protista, Fungi, Plantae, Animalia

You will be making a powerpoint that includes the following information:

For your assigned Kingdom you will be researching the following information: cell type, cell wall, chloroplast, number of cells (unicelluar or multicellular), mode of nutrition, and examples.

You will also include 5 organisms that are examples from your kingdom. You will include a picture of the organism and its taxonomic breakdown (from kingdom to species).

For example humans are:

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Primates
Family: Hominidae
Genus: Homo
Species: sapiens


Websites that may help:
http://www.angelfire.com/ks3/lditton/

http://biology.about.com/od/evolution/a/aa091004a.htm

http://www.earthlife.net/kingdom.html

http://eol.org/

You will present your powerpoint to the class. At the end of class everyone will have a completed 'Characteristics of Domains and Kingdoms' chart.

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