Jasmine Hamerter

7/21/09

Group D

CLASSIFACATION

Classification is a grouping process that began in the late 4th century of time. The way people classified living and non-living was very different from today’s perspective. Classification back then use to be simply things that had blood and things that didn’t which is how professor’s of that time would have described human life. Today we have multiple classifications for human life such as mammals which are humans and many animals that range between the animal kingdom, also things like lighting bugs which don’t exactly have blood but the liquid in there body’s that allows them to glow would separate them so that they could be classified in their own kingdom. There are many other theories of how classification became to be for example Aristotle and Carolus Linnaeus and total different ways of viewing classification in the world but at the same time they both shared a common goal and that was how the world should be set into its own categories.

Aristotle’s theory of classification started in the 4th century BC (384 to 322 BC). Aristotle was a Greek professor during the time he lived his system was said to have been in the 1600’s. He believed if you divided organisms into 2 groups which would be plants and animals you would have covered everything there is in the world. Another one of his classifications that he came up with was blood and bloodless. This was not a good classification that he made because he left many other organisms that don’t fall under either one of those categories. His last classification that he came up with was land, air, and water. This was one of his best systems that he came up with I would say because it covered a wide range of different organisms and it was much easier to classify things according to what they were capable to do.

On the other had Carolus Linnaeus classification theory started in the 18th century. Carolus was a Swedish scientist his theory was to classify plants and animals according to their similarities and background info. He also divided things into a plant and animal kingdom, but then he broke those kingdoms down into smaller groups called genera or genus for plural. Next, he divided those kingdoms down into smaller kingdoms called species that could much easier help describe different animals and plant life. Then, he design a system that would help name organisms called binomial which would further help with distinguishing living organisms.

As you can see through life classification has dramatically changed over time due to others opinion. Carolus and Aristotle had similar views but had total different outcomes because of the ways they decided to use classification to the best of there knowledge. Classification is still changing everyday progressing dramatically because of how people see the world. How will you classify are world to help better it?

Reflection

Unit: Just So Stories

Objective: Students will read Kipling’s Just So Stories and work to write and revise their own Just So Stories. They will identify a topic under the above capstone which will be a variation of Kipling’s Just So Stories. They will create and write their stories focusing on the use of dialogue. They will read their stories to a group of 1st and 2nd graders who will then draw pictures for the Just So Stories.

ODE Benchmarks Addressed: WRTP A, WRTP C-E, WRTA A

1. How do the Just So Stories relate to our Classification Capstone? Explain in detail.

I really don’t know

2. What did you like and/or dislike about writing your own Just So Story? Explain in detail?

I liked that I could use my own imagination and come up with something that would inspire other young writers to pursue. I didn’t like that it had to be about an animal but I made due of it and I think it worked out for the better. And I also liked my story because I think it left the kids with a good message about taking other people’s feelings into consideration and not just thinking of your own.

3. What was your experience working with the elementary students? Give a detailed summary of your experience.

I would say my experience working with the little kids was good. I felt they understood the message I was trying to get across, I also felt they enjoyed the book and understood it clearly. One of the young girl’s I had name was jasmine just like mine she said she liked strawberries and blueberries so the connection in my story that I talked about blueberries she said she liked.

4. Would you work with elementary students in the future? Give 3 examples of how we can work with elementary students in all subject areas.

No I don’t think I could handle the attention spans but I can give some ideas:

•In math we could have them cut out shapes that we could use in geometry

•In English they could write down some things about themselves and we could read it and draw pictures of what we think they mean.

•And in social studies we could do a history project with them about what they know so far about their history like catch phrase.