CLASSIFICATION OF LIVING THINGS: A TEACHER'S MANUAL FOR GENERAL LEVEL PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT GRADES 7 AND 8. Allan M. MacKinnon, Rosemary Mwazwita Mundangepfupfu and Douglas A. Roberts. Toronto, OISE Press, c1984. 71pp, paper, $7.50. ISBN 0-7744-5067-3. Professional. Reviewed by Peter Freeman. Volume 12 Number 5 1984 September This is a short book, the second in a series of teacher's manuals designed for teachers of grades 7 to 10 science. Although the series is aimed at specific topics in the Ontario curriculum guidelines, the subject matter dealt with in this book can be readily applied wherever the concepts of biological classification are introduced. This book is written for teachers of uninterested general level students. Its aim is to relate classification skills and knowledge to outdoor and leisure activities such as bird watching and hiking. The authors attempt to address this goal with a series of six episodes, each of which describes the content, objectives, and suggested evaluation of a given topic. Within the episodes are teacher's resources, which are explanations and descriptions of possible teaching strategies, and twenty student resources. Teachers are encouraged to copy these student resources, which include line drawings, classification keys, and a variety of exercises. Teachers will likely be impressed by the organized approach to the subject. The material is not, however, without its shortcomings. The choices of objects to be classified in the student resources are likely to be alien to the experiences of most students: few students will know what an arctic three-toed woodpecker or a striped-maple are. In addition, the way that some of the material is presented may, in the words of the authors, require "some fancy footwork." These problems can be overcome by modification of the episodes to create a classification program unique to the needs of individual teachers. This book is an excellent skeleton on which to hang programs appropriate to your needs. Peter Freeman, Booth Memorial J. S. S., Prince Rupert, BC.