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Studying Classification with Cladograms Kit

Item # 221040

Students explore animal diversity and learn to classify different animals using a cladogram. The kit includes a classroom set each of preserved crayfish, grasshoppers, perch, frogs, and rats. Students observe and record similarities among the organisms then create a cladogram predicting their phylogenetic order based on external-morphological traits. Student groups then dissect each organism, observe internal anatomy, and share their findings with the class.

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Grades 9-12. For a class of 32 working in groups of 4. Students explore animal diversity and learn to classify different animals using a cladogram. The kit includes a classroom set each of preserved crayfish, grasshoppers, perch, frogs, and rats. Students observe and record similarities among the organisms then create a cladogram predicting their phylogenetic order based on external-morphological traits. Student groups then dissect each organism, observe internal anatomy, and share their findings with the class. A detailed teacher's manual containing background information, pre-lab practice problems, extension activities, dissection guides for each organism, and reproducible student sheets is also provided.

Student Objectives:

  • Observe anatomical evolutionary patterns across the animal kingdom
  • Study the external anatomical structures of a crustacean, an insect, a fish, an amphibian, and a mammal
  • Learn how to construct phylogenetic trees or cladograms
  • Dissect an organism representative of Kingdom Animalia

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  • This item is sold and shipped to schools and businesses only. Not available to individuals or residential addresses.
 

What's Included

Components Qty Included?
Carolina's Perfect Solution® Crayfish 8 Included
Carolina's Perfect Solution® Grasshoppers 8 Included
Carosafe® Perch 8 Included
Carolina's Perfect Solution® Frogs, Noninjected 8 Included
Carolina's Perfect Solution® Rats, Noninjected 8 Included
Teacher’s Manual and Reproducible Student Guide with Dissection Guides Included
Gloves Needed, Not included
Lab Aprons Needed, Not included
Safety Glasses or Goggles Needed, Not included
Sponges Needed, Not included
Sets of Dissecting Instruments (scalpel, dissecting scissors, teasing needles, forceps, dissecting pins, and ruler) 8 Needed, Not included

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