Taxonomy

Taxonomy in biology is the study of naming, describing, and classifying new organisms into different branches, Domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, and species. Throughout history, humans have always classified organisms that they have encountered. One of the first taxonomists was Aristotle, “who organized five hundred types of animals according to habitat and body form” (http://www.biologyreference.com). However, the first modern taxonomist was Swedish botanist Carl Linnaeus,…

positive contributions to the group. Sometime during the first semester, I read an article about the use of Bloom’s Questioning Stems in the classroom. I also went to a conference on differentiation that also presented information about using Bloom’s Taxonomy with students. What was presented made me change my thinking about how to completely implement my goal. It was said in the article and at the conference that it did not matter what level of questioning a student choose to use, only that…

classification has proven to a central element of discussion in post-colonial scholarship and such scheme of classifications played a central role in grounding, justifying, and assessing colonial projects. For instance, Andersen argues that various taxonomies of classifications were used to…

As a music educator, I believe that student learning happens in several ways; many that are transferable to education in general. Based on the philosophies set forth by Reimer (2003), Elliot (1995), and Small (1998), students should be able to learn through high quality aesthetic experiences, praxial experiences where application of acquired knowledge and skill sets that are central to school to everyday life, and social experiences inside and outside the classroom to best interact with society…

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Topic 1 The Occupational Information Network or O*Net is an electronic collection of databases introduced by the federal government in 1995 in replacement of the Dictionary of Occupational Titles or DOT. In spite of its many critics, the O*Net offers its users many benefits compared to the traditional DOT in many regards. Sackett & Laczo (2003) criticize the DOT on a number of aspects such as its focus on tasks rather than on workers attributes; in addition, it focuses on occupation-specific…

own all the way to the family hominidae it comes as no surprise that of all the variety of species and living organisms that chimpanzees would seem the most human-like. Below I intend to discuss the chimpanzee’s taxonomy, morphology, habitat, and social structure. The chimpanzee’s taxonomy, or pan troglodytes (species name for the chimpanzee) hails from the genus: pan, family: hominidae, super family: Hominoidea, infraorder: simiiformes and suborder: Haplorrhini. Known sub-species include P. t.…

Intersectionality is a huge determining factor within people’s everyday lives so why is not represented in the media more often? The articles I chose to support this topic are: Punks, Bull daggers, and Welfare Queens by Cathy Cohen, Generic Definition: Taxonomies of Identity by Meredith Rainmondo and Cherokee Two Spirit People…

interested in, which keeps them engaged in the lesson. As for Cooperative Learning, which is part of Vygotsky’s learning theory, students are given the chance to work in groups and share ideas while improving their own learning. Lastly, the Bloom’s Taxonomy helps create different levels of questions for the students to think on a higher…

Syncretism is a very broad term that has uses in many different types of study, ranging from Linguistics, Cognitive Sciences, Psychology, Computer Science and many others, but its most controversial reign exists in that of the study of Religion. In the book The World Religions, author Anita Maria Leopold addresses the topic of Syncretism and validates it as a topic worthy of study in the field of Religion. She goes through many steps to arrive at her final view on the topic, “[that] syncretism…