Description
Free Dichotomous Key activity with funny monster creatures! This resource is a simple, low prep way to give your students practice making and understanding dichotomous keys.
Dichotomous Key activity includes:
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Twelve unique monster creatures on an 8.5” x 11” page for easy printing. Both color and black and white version. Creatures are numbered for easy sorting!
Three Student Pages:
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Name Your Creatures!: prompting kids to name their creatures using scientific nomenclature (genus species)
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Make a Dichotomous Key! : space to create a ‘tree’ style Dichotomous key, with a grid below to convert the tree into the ‘chart’ style key
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Identify the Creature!: Students will create their Keys and then swap with another student/group to practice using the key, writing the names of the creatures as they Key them onto a third student page.
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Full teaching guide!
This activity is free! Enjoy!
What some happy teachers are saying about the Dichotomous Key Activity:
Lots of fun for the kids and a great recap activity to cover what we learned. – Erin L.Will use this again, this replaced the activity I have been using for many years. Thank you!!! – Mark P.My students enjoyed this resource. It was a fun way to review. Thank you. – Veronica B.I used this activity during a summer bridge program for incoming 9th graders. The students enjoyed working with the funny creatures and made a game of trying to come up with the best scientific names for them. I plan to use this activity during the regular school year to supplement my dichotomous keys lesson. – Shannon V.
