Activity 1

What’s in a name?
Objectives:
After performing this activity, you should be able to:
1. give the names of organisms as they are known in your community
2. recognize the need to have a system of classifying and naming organisms.
Materials Needed:
pictures of organisms
pencil or ballpen
sheet of paper
Procedure:
1. Get pictures of organisms from your teacher.
2. With your group, discuss how each of these organisms is called in your community. Accept any name which your
groupmates will give for an organism. If you know other names by which an organism is called in another place, include
them. Write these on the sheet of paper.
3. Be ready when your teacher asks you to present your work to the class. Take note of how the other groups named each
of the organisms shown.
Q1. Are there organisms that others gave the same name to as your group did? Give examples.
Q2. Are there organisms that others gave a different name to as your group did? What are these organisms?
Q3. What can you say about your knowledge of the organisms before the other groups’ presentations and the teacher’s
discussion?
Q4. Which organisms in Table 1 are similar up to the Order category?
Q5. Which organisms are most closely related? Why do you say so?
Q6. Can a dog and a wolf produce fertile offspring? Explain your answer.
Q7. Examine the row for species in Table 1. What have you noticed?
Q8. What does the first one refer to in the table? What about the second name?