Mythical Creatures and How to Make Them

The Curious Cases of Carl Linnaeus tells funny stories about his journey of scientific exploration. In this episode we learn about how the dragon, phoenix and even the hydra were once real, that was until at least Carl Linnaeus had something to say about it. We also learn about the ways in which we classify the natural world.

Listen : https://youtu.be/lmQVnEMWtFc

 

What’s in a name?

 

Have you ever watched a child playing with Smarties? Very often the child will sort them out into colours. This might seem an obvious and natural thing to do, but it tells us something very interesting about the human brain. The child is indulging in an activity which can be described as classification. Suppose you were designing a website for a large company or supermarket. One of your tasks would be to sort out the products into a logical system. More complicated than Smarties, but not really different in essence.

Through this worksheet, students will cover the topics of classification and binomial nomenclature. 

Student Worksheet
Worksheet 01: What's in a name?

read and write : https://www.linnean.org/learning/content/worksheets/whats-in-a-name