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    1. Students observed and classified various plants and animals found around their school based on observable characteristics like color, size, and physical features. 2. Data sheets were used to record observations of 5 plants and 5 animals, including drawings of one animal. 3. Organisms were identified using identification keys and classified according to their characteristics.

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    1. Students observed and classified various plants and animals found around their school based on observable characteristics like color, size, and physical features. 2. Data sheets were used to record observations of 5 plants and 5 animals, including drawings of one animal. 3. Organisms were identified using identification keys and classified according to their characteristics.

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    1. Students observed and classified various plants and animals found around their school based on observable characteristics like color, size, and physical features. 2. Data sheets were used to record observations of 5 plants and 5 animals, including drawings of one animal. 3. Organisms were identified using identification keys and classified according to their characteristics.

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    PRACTICAL NO.

    1
    TOPIC:  Artificial Classification
    DATE:
    AIM: To observe and classify organisms in an area around the home based on
    their observable characteristics.
    APPARATUS AND MATERIALS:
     Notebooks, pencils, hand lenses, forceps, gloves, paper tape, aerated containers,
    white tile, identification keys, photographs and textbooks.
    METHOD:
    Field visit
    1. Arranged yourselves into groups already determined by the teacher.
    2. Each group took a specified area of the school compound as their sample area.
    3. Used hand lens where appropriate to observe the observable characteristics of at
    least 5 plants and 5 animals in their habitats within the sample area (e.g. under
    stones, on plants under dry leaves, flying etc) and recorded the observations in
    pre-prepared tables. 
    4. Identified the organisms using provided keys (online). 
    5. Recorded names of organisms and observations in tables.
    6. Made a labeled drawing of ONE animal ( preferably an insect) that was
    observed. Used the observable characteristics recorded in the tables to
    classify the organisms.
    RESULTS AND OBSERVATIONS
    DATA SHEET FOR ANIMALS 
    Name of Where                                       
    organis found Observable characteristics
    ms  They may Colour No. of  Appendages Locomoti
    Ant nest Their body Ants have two pairs on
    undergrou color segment of appendages on   ( flying
    nd, inside varies s their head: the etc)
    trees, or in from an ant's mandibles, used for moving
    the walls yellow- body is grabbing or fighting, their legs
    and voids brown to divided and maxillae, used in two
    of a house brown into for breaking up food groups of
    or and red- three into small bits for three
    building.  black to main swallowing.
    all black. parts
    No No. of No. of
    . wings antenn
    of 2 ae
    leg (usuall 2
    s y)
    2 
    Butterfl butterflies blue, A 6 2 2 When
    y are found purple, or butterfly this
    all over white 's three happens,
    the world. orange, body the
    yellow, parts are butterfly
    and black the will
    head, move its
    thorax wing
    (the muscles
    chest), ever so
    and slightly
    abdome in
    n (the different
    tail end). directions
    so that
    their
    wings
    can
    'warm up'
    enough to
    take off.
    Worm They live Watermel The 0 Most 2 Moveme
    anywhere on Red earthwor adult nt
    there is Green m is worms involves
    moist soil Pumpkin made of have 2 extending
    and dead Black and about pairs the body,
    plant Blue 100-150 of anchoring
    material. segment wings it to a
    s surface
    with
    setae, and
    contractin
    g body
    muscles.

    Lizard Lizards Many Lizards 2 0 0 During


    can be lizards have 5 bipedal
    found in can body locomoti
    every change segment on, the
    continent colour. s. forelimbs
    except leave the
    Antarctica ground
    and the
    trunk of
    the lizard
    is
    elevated.
    Cockroa Cockroach Most Its body 6 4 1 or 2 They
    ch es prefer roaches is only fly
    to live in are a divided short
    warm, reddish- into distances.
    dark, wet brown to three They are
    areas, like black in segment able to
    sewers color. s: head, run and
    and thorax climb..
    basements and They
    . abdome walk in a
    n. very
    interestin
    g manner,
    moving
    three legs
    at a time.

    DATA SHEET FOR PLANTS

    Name of Observable characteristics Any


    organism other
    ( name featu
    used res
    commonl of
    y) inter
    est
                                       
    Leaves                                                          
    Shape Edge Arrange Venat Texture Colour
    s ment ion
    Pine Tree Needle None Compou Parall Coarse  Green
    Leaves nd el
    Banana Heart Smo Simple Net- Smooth Light or
    Tree Shaped oth like dark
    Leaves green

    Round Smo Simple Parall Smooth Green


    Orchid oth el
    Plant
    Leaves
    Spear Toot Simple Net- Slightly Green
    Apple shaped hed like coarse
    Tree
    Leaves
    Orange Spear Smo Simple Net- Smooth Green
    Tree shaped oth like
    Leaves

    DISCUSSION
    Classification is the arrangement of organisms into orderly groups
    based on their similarities. Classification is also known as taxonomy.
    Taxonomic entities are classified in three ways. They are artificial
    classification, natural classification and phylogenetic classification. There
    are seven major levels of classification: Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order,
    Family, Genus, and Species. The two main kingdoms we think about are
    plants and animals.

    Throughout this investigation, it has been found that caracteristics


    such as appearance, reproduction, mobility, and functionality are just a few ways in
    which living organisms are grouped together. The earthworm is from the phylum
    Annelida, and are referred to as annelids because they are segmented worms. Ants
    are eusocial insects of the family Formicidae and, along with the related wasps and
    bees, belong to the order Hymenoptera because they are in possession of a
    metapleural gland.. Butterflies are insects in the macrolepidopteran clade
    Rhopalocera from the order Lepidoptera, which also includes moths because
    butterflies have large, often brightly coloured wings, and conspicuous, fluttering
    flight. Lizards belong to the class Reptilia, to the order Squamata and to the
    Phylum Chordata because they are air-breathing vertebrates covered in special skin
    made up of scales, bony plates, or a combination of both. Under the Kingdom
    Animalia, cockroaches belong to the Phylum Arthropoda, Class Insecta, and Order
    Blattodea because they possess an exoskeleton, jointed appendages and their body
    is segmented. Banana leaf is a monocot leaf showing parallel venation. The veins
    are arranged parallel to each other and never join any other veins. There is no
    branching as in reticulate venation. The other type of reticulated vein pattern is
    pinnate venation, where each pair of veins branch off into smaller veins. Apple
    leaves and orange tree leaves have pinnate venation because there is a visible
    pattern where there is a dominant center vein, or “mid-rib” with other veins
    branching off from the middle. Like most monocots, orchids and pine tree leaves
    generally have simple leaves with parallel venation and correlates with their
    extended leaf shape and wide leaf base.

    CONCLUSION

    The organisms have been observed and classified in an area around the home based
    on their observable characteristics into groups which are namely animal and plant.

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