Miss A's Science Lesson:

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Miss A's Science Lesson
Classifying Animals
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Today You Will...
Learn what it means to classify Demonstrate
an understanding of classification by classifying
animals Know how to differentiate between
mammals and non-mammals Be able to identify
different animal coverings
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What Does CLASSIFY Mean?
Classify To put objects into groups where
members have one or more characteristics in
common.
You can classify books, cars, plants, and animals!
What else can we classify??
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How Are Animals Classified?
In other words, how can we group animals using
their similarities and differences?
Lets think
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Animals can be classified by...
Mammals or non-mammals
Vertebrates or invertebrates
Species
Outer covering
Size
Habitat
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Wait, animals can be classified according to if
they are mammals
.but whats a mammal?
Mammals ALWAYS Have hair or fur (even just a
little) Produce milk
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Mammals usually
Are warm-blooded Have live babies Have four legs
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Let's Try to Classify These Animals...
Mammal
Non-mammal
Are the animals classified correctly??
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Animals can also be classified by their outside
covering!
An animals outside covering could be Fur or
hair (like a cat) Skin (like an elephant) Scales
(like a fish) Feathers (like a bird) Shell (like
a turtle)
Lets take a look at each of these..
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What Animals Have Fur/Hair?
Fur keeps the animal warm!
Cheetah
Chipmunk
Golden Lion Tamarin
Panda
Tiger
Koala
Prairie Dog
What other animals have fur or hair?
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Some animals are covered with scales that shed
and are replaced by new scales.
What Animals Have Scales?
Angelfish
Butterfly
Parrot Fish
Garden Snake
Did you know if you touch a butterflys scales
you can prevent it from flying?
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The shell protects the animal from predators!
What Animals Have a Shell?
Lobster
Radiated Tortoise
Crawfish
Sponge Crab
(Not Sponge Bob!)
Snail
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Some animals have skin to protect them from the
environment.
What Animals Have Skin?
Killer Whale
Newt
Rhinoceros
Poison Arrow Frogs
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Feathers protect the bird and help it to fly!
What Animals Have Feathers?
Bald Eagle
Kiwi
Blue Jay
Flamingo
King Vulture
Can you think of other types of birds?
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Classify By Outer Covering!!
Shell
Fur
Skin
crawfish
newt
cat
lizard
koala
rhinoceros
lobster
panda
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Classify by Outer Covering!!
Feathers
Fur
Scales
eagle
seal
butterfly
snake
dog
chicks
fish
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GREAT JOB!!
Now see if you can answer these questions
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Do You Know Your Animals?
What two things always describe a mammal? Why
do birds need feathers? What does it mean to
classify? How can we classify animals? Name
two animals that are protected by a shell.
Share one thing that you learned today!
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I hope you had fun classifying and learning about
animals!