From Curiosity Cabinet to Museum Collection This lesson for 5 th to 7 th graders integrates biology, history, art, and math through a series of collecting, classifying, and cataloguing activities. The lesson introduces students to binomial nomenclature and museum-based research. Students discover the development of museums from their origins as curiosity cabinets to today's virtual museums, providing online access to collections and specimen databases. Students create a curiosity box, label the objects in their curiosity box (using Latin binomials for plant and animal specimens when possible), develop a classification scheme for the objects, and create a database of all objects collected by the class. Home The Project The Flora Science Outreach Goals ... Fact Sheets
- Learning goals: (1) to classify objects using skills in observing, identifying, and comparing; (2) to tabulate and analyze data Key terms: classification, taxonomy, binomial nomenclature, kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, species
Background Before museums existed, objects of natural history, art, and technology were held in private collections. Curiosity cabinets - also known as cabinets of wonders or chambers of curiosities - of the 16 | |
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