Steps to finding how to classify living things:

1. Go to www.wikipedia.com

2. Type in your selected animal, plant, algae, or bacteria into the search place

3. After opening the page for your search, look to the right of the screen where a picture of your selected organism should be

4. Look underneath the picture to find the chart with the domain, kingdom, etc. of your selected organism

5. Because wikipedia is not always reliable, you should check your information at another website (enter the scientific name of your living thing into google).

Classification of living things:

Domain:

There are three main domains. They are: Archaea, Eubacteria and Eukaryota.

Kingdom: 

The four kingdoms are Animalia (animals), Plantae (plants), Protista (protists), and Fungi.

Phylum:

There are many different phylums. To see some examples, click on the link below.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phylum

Class:

Some different classes are:

Amphibians

such as frogs

(class: Amphibia)

Reptiles

such as crocodiles

(class: Reptilia)

Birds

(class: Aves)

Mammals

(class: Mammalia)

Arachnids

such as spiders

(class: Arachnida)

Insects

(class: Insecta)

Family:

Almost all families are named for a type of genus, adding the ending idae (animals) or aceae (plants) to the stem of the genus name.

(wikipedia definition)

Order:

Genus:

Species:

The species of something living is the genus name, then the species. For example, the genus of the american robin is Turdus and the second word of the species is migratorius, so the species is turdus migratorius.

Classification Sheets:

Classification Cards.ppt

          Classification Rubric.doc 

Link for classification:

  http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761576239/Classification.html