Collect a large variety of different pasta shapes. Place one of each shape in a bag. Provide each student/pair/group with a bag of pasta shapes. Students then create a dichotomous key to identify each pasta shape. After completing the dichotomous key, groups can exchange keys to test them.
Wednesday, March 14, 2012
Classification: Pasta Dichotomous Key
Originally posted on February 17, 2010

Collect a large variety of different pasta shapes. Place one of each shape in a bag. Provide each student/pair/group with a bag of pasta shapes. Students then create a dichotomous key to identify each pasta shape. After completing the dichotomous key, groups can exchange keys to test them.
Collect a large variety of different pasta shapes. Place one of each shape in a bag. Provide each student/pair/group with a bag of pasta shapes. Students then create a dichotomous key to identify each pasta shape. After completing the dichotomous key, groups can exchange keys to test them.
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This is quite clever!
ReplyDeleteSuper cute! I love this idea!
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You can use Creately dichotomous key maker to create dichotomous keys online. There are templates and examples to get started as well. You can use them freely to create dichotomous keys for projects and studies.
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