Identify the ways and need for scientific naming and how classification is structurally oriented
Binomial scientific nomenclature, is science's answer to giving organisms unique names, allowing scientists to discuss organisms without confusion of which one they’re discussing. This also means that they've designed a structure to place organisms into, to help separate and diversify organisms.
This is where the classification system comes in starting with Life, leading to Domain, Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family , Genus, Species. This ranking systems allows scientists and the normal population to access and find specific species quickly and efficiently. This general hierarchical classification type system can be seen in many other things. Including mechanical naming and classification. Leading to my preference of game to demonstrate this standard. This game being World of Tanks(my review here). Because tanks use a classification and naming scheme very similar to binomial scientific nomenclature.
Every known species is given a two-part name, this name is called it’s scientific name. The system that it’s part of is known as the binomial nomenclature. This system is designed to allow people across the world to discuss specific organisms without confusion. Of course, there would be issues with overlapping names if there weren't international laws that prevent it. Making it so that every scientific name is unique. For example if a scientist were to discuss a certain organism to another scientist he would use that organisms scientific name instead of it’s normal name. why is this important? Well because if these two scientists were from different countries, without the ability to communicate through a native language, they’d still know what each were talking about. Of course more commonly is the occurrence, that the non-scientific names of organisms share multiple nicknames and without scientific naming it would lead to confusion when people refer to them with different names.
Scientific names are also designed to tell a bit about the organisms relativity with other organisms. The first part of a scientific name is the generic name,which describes the species, it must always be the genus of said species, the second part is the specific name, this describes the specific organism within that species. Simply put the layout for scientific name would be:(Genus Name Specific Species Name). This allows scientists who discover a new species under a certain genus the ability to give it a unique name while still incorporating its genus name . The naming process is generally pretty descriptive of a key feature of an organism.
So how do you use this in the classroom? Well first off you find a game(my preference: World of Tanks, you can find it (link to my game review of WoT) on my blog). Now that you understand what Wot is(if you read the review). I’ll demonstrate a few ideas for using it in the classroom.
Idea 1( for basic know-how and tutorials on the game look: here)
Split the class room up into two groups, making it as even as possible.
assign to each side of the room a nation, or let them choose
Assign the two groups to the custom room layout in WoT
- Once you've set up the room lay out some rules:
- This is how you'll create your custom room for you class.(Will have pictures up when I can fix my WoT client. Their newest patch broke it >.<)
- On a side note, to make a custom game you'll want to look at the middle top of your "garrage" you'll see "Battle" and then below it "standard battle" with a little downwards arrow,
- click on the downwards arrow and navigate in the list to the entry that says " Training Room" click that
- Once there you can use the fancy ">>' and "<<" to arrange your students onto each side. Then you can hit the battle button and begin.
- 1: when you destroy a tank call out the tank name, and when communicating with your team mates you must use the tank names you're referring too, not " that tank" , or " it" ETC
- 2: Only tier 1-2 are usable,
- and any personal rules you'd like to set
- Now the best part start the game and let the students play it out, calling out tanks names when they destroy them.
- Next when they finish the first round, 10-15 minutes on average 20 minutes max.
- Next set up another rule
- They can't say tank names and must refer to enemy tanks and their own as " it", " tank" , "that tank " ETC
- Now have them play another game
- The goal of this is to give an example of how specific names clear up confusion and allow for easy conversing and explaining,
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