Tasting the 5 Kingdoms

Biological classifications have undergone many classifications in the past decades and these changes are still coming.

Once upon a time, all living things were lumped together into two kingdoms, namely plants and animals. Animals included every living thing that moved, ate, and grew to a certain size and stopped growing. Plants included every living thing that did not move or eat and that continued to grow throughout life. It became very difficult to group some living things into one or the other, so early in the past century the two kingdoms were expanded into five kingdoms: Protista (the single-celled eukaryotes); Fungi (fungus and related organisms); Plantae (the plants); Animalia (the animals); Monera (the prokaryotes). Many biologists now recognize 5 distinct kingdoms.

Recently, the lower El students "tasted" the 5 Kingdoms.

We introduced:

1.  Prokaryotes (bacteria/cheese)

2.  Protista (algae/ seaweed)

3.  Fungi(mushrooms)

4.  Animal (turkey jerky)

5.  Plant (edible flowers)