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- 6th - 8th
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Students investigate animal classifications. They determine the classes of vertebrates after brainstorming a list of animals. They study the characteristics of other classes of animals. Full Review »
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- 7th - 8th
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Students explore the question, "What types of adaptations do invertebrates need to live in a methane hydrate habitat?" They design an invertebrate or vertebrate capable of living in a methane hydrate ecosystem. Full Review »
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- 3rd - 5th
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Students identify different animals according to which animal group they belong, vertebrate or invertebrate.They characteristics of the different animal groups. Students name the five groups of vertebrates and three groups of invertebrates. Full Review »
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- 3rd - 5th
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Students research the characteristics of Vertebrates and Invertebrates. They identify and explain those characteristics. Students create a Venn Diagram comparing/contrasting those characteristics. Full Review »
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- 3rd - 5th
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Students examine the differences between vertebrates and invertebrates. They conduct Internet research, take an online invertebrate quiz, complete a vertebrate fact sheet, print out pictures of invertebrates they find interesting, and create index card information fact cards. Full Review »
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- 7th
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Students brainstorm to find the meaning to the terms vertebrate and invertebrate. They use ideas in order to progress to the investigation. They feel their own backbones in order to bring context to the lesson. Students answer questions about why animals are put into different categories. Full Review »
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- 9th - 11th
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Students identify and describe five main groups of the Phylum Chordata. They discover that the Phylum Chordata is the vertebrates. Students identify the main difference between invertebrates and vertebrates. They read passages about the different chordates. Full Review »
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- 5th
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Students engage in a lesson that investigates the concept of characterizing different types of living things. They identify the differences between vertebrates and invertebrates along with the differences in the phyla for each group. Full Review »
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Students identify and interpret how Carolus Linnaeus devised a classification system for living things with two kingdoms, how scientists now classify the Five Kingdoms of Living Things, as well as how vertebrates and invertebrates, plants, and other living things are classified. Full Review »
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- 6th
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Students identify the differences between invertebrates and vertebrates. In groups, they use the internet to examine different invertebrate animals. To end the lesson, they classify a list of animals into the correct category and name their own animal not on the list and place it in the correct spot. Full Review »

