Biodiversity & Discovery · Week 4 of 9
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Today's goal
Organise evidence about organisms into groups and build a yes/no key.
By the end
Another group can use the key.
What we'll do (60 minutes)
- Sort specimens by features you can see10 min
- Compare two groups' sorting systems: which is more useful, and why?10 min
- Build a yes/no key25 min
- Test your key on another group's specimen10 min
- Exit: what made a key question useful?5 min
Need a hand?
Start from the two-question key starter.
Want a challenge?
Key that works for 10 or more specimens.
Try this week
AI this week
Kōkako, your AI mentor: Asks you one question at a time, such as “What evidence supports that?”. It never tells you the answer or whether you are right. You: Write the finding in your own words, including how sure you are.