This week in lab we each completed our inquiry lab, my lab was apart of my wildlife and forestry unit focusing on the use of a dichotomous key. To begin, I asked students to sort beans into categories based off of the characteristics that they thought to be most important and definitive of the benas found in the bag. Once students successfully sorted their beans, we moved on to to coming up with characteristics to sort ourselves like hair color, age, zodiac sign, and height. From there, my cohort members ranked what characteristics they believed to be the most important when determining what allowed each of us to be a part of this cohort. Throughout this activity students used their own inquiry to move throughout classifying a group of people based on the characteristics and traits they believed to be important. This is the same process that scientists use when creating the dichotomous key. Through student inquiry, we walked through process of using a dichotomous key and then app