Lesson: Taxonomic Hierarchy Biology • First Year of Secondary School

In this lesson, we will learn how to recall the levels in the taxonomic hierarchy and apply this knowledge to example organisms.

Lesson Plan

Students will be able to

recall that a species is a group of similar organisms that are able to breed to produce fertile offspring,
state the levels in the taxonomic hierarchy as being kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, and species,
understand that the binomial naming system gives an organism a genus and a species name,
apply knowledge of the taxonomic hierarchy to classify given organisms or recognize what taxonomic groups they belong to.