Thursday 20 February 2014

In which Hannah learns about the hierarchy of classification of living things

This was the topic on her online biology course last week and we wanted to make something to help her remember it. The fact that there are seven levels involved lent itself to something rainbow, which Hannah really likes to do where possible.

So we chose seven different colour pieces of card and found different round things to draw round (various sized plates, jar lids etc) to give us circles of increasing size. Hannah wrote the name of the level and some examples of it, using humans as the species. In the end, it looked like this:

Species: Homo Sapiens


Genus: Homo

Family: Hominidae

Order: Primates

Class: Mammalia (excuse the spelling of humAns)

Phylum: Chordata

Kingdom: Animalia

Honestly, those are rainbow colours. The class one looks grey but is in fact bright yellow!

The whole thing looked like this when it was finished.