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ArtsNow

Arts Now Learning: Classification of Animals: "Connect Your Animal Show" [Pdf]

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders learn about animal classification by reviewing the taxonomy system, then looking at pictures of animals as if they were scientists, acting out an animal's characteristics, then classifying their animal.
Interactive
Soft Schools

Soft Schools: Animal Classification Game

For Students 1st - 5th
Decide whether an animal is an amphibian, insect, mammal or reptile with this interactive classification game.
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Animal Life Cycles Introduction

For Students 3rd
Third graders will explain commonalities in animal life cycles as well and to compare life cycles of different animal groups.
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: Cannibalism in the Animal Kingdom

For Students 9th - 10th
Until recently, scientists thought cannibalism was a rare response to starvation or other extreme stress. Well-known cannibals like the praying mantis and black widow were considered bizarre exceptions. But now, we know they more or less...
Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Animal Classification

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart introduces the five kingdoms of animal classification. It includes Activote questions to assess understanding of the topic.
Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Animal Kingdom

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart introduces students to the animal kingdom, differentiating between vertebrates and invertebrates.
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: Meet the Tardigrade, the Toughest Animal on Earth

For Students 9th - 10th
This 1-millimeter animal can survive both the hottest and coldest environments on earth, and can even withstand high levels of radiation. Thomas Boothby introduces us to the tardigrade, one of the toughest creatures on Earth. [4:10]
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National Institute of Educational Technologies and Teacher Training (Spain)

Ministerio De Educacion: El Reino Animal

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the animal kingdom including an in-depth look at body characteristics, reproduction, types of cells, ways they obtain food, and evolutionary relationships. Many illustrations and nine interactive activities are included.
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Soft Schools

Soft Schools: Animal Quizzes

For Students 9th - 10th
Links to science quizzes about animals and birds. Topics include animal classification, butterfly, beetle and frog life cycles, spiders, bats, birds of prey, owls, birds of the jungle, rainforest, cold climates and migration.
Handout
BiologyWise

Biology Wise: Classification of Animals

For Students 4th - 8th
The classification system for animals is explained and examples given. Includes suggestions for how to teach the system to younger students and how to create a classification chart of the animal kingdom.
Lesson Plan
A to Z Teacher Stuff

Lesson Plan: Classifying Animals

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Students classify animals according to whether or not they can fly. The lesson plan includes instructions and materials.
Interactive
Quia

Quia: Animal Classifications

For Students 3rd - 8th
An interactive matching game from Quia dealing with animal classifications.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Animal, Insect, and Bird Classification

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
As a follow-up to a unit on the classifications of animals, insects, and birds, young scholars will attend a distance learning field trip. The students will then e-mail trusted adults some of the information learned about the...
Activity
My Science Site

Middle School Science: Shoe Classification Lab [Pdf]

For Students 4th - 7th
This concise worksheet site will enable students to learn how to create a classification system and to understand the reasons for classification in science. Requires Adobe Reader.
Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Live Like an Animal

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this activity, students design an innovative human shelter that is inspired and informed by an animal structure. Each group is assigned an animal class, and they gather information about shelters used by the animals in that class....
Interactive
Quia

Quia: Animal Facts Scavenger Hunt

For Students 3rd - 8th
At this website you are given ten questions to answer and links to three websites where you can find those answers.
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Everything ESL

Everything Esl: Categorizing & Classifying Animals

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Teach your students about categorizing and classifying with this high thinking level unit. It features many downloads and resources. It also provides bulletin board ideas.
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Everything ESL

Everything Esl: Categorizing & Classifying Animals

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Teach your students about categorizing and classifying with this high thinking level unit. It features many downloads and resources. It also provides bulletin board ideas.
Handout
Other

Natural Perspective: The Animal Kingdom: Starfish

For Students 9th - 10th
Info page of sea star inhabitants of tide pools.Includes excellent photography
Unit Plan
TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: The Evolution of Animal Genitalia

For Students 9th - 10th
Genitals are the fastest-evolving organs in the animal kingdom. Menno Schilthuizen explains how the evolutionary biology of nature's nether regions uncovers a hidden world of seduction, conflict, and rivalry.
Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Animal Sorting

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
[Free Registration/Login Required] This K-2 flipchart is designed to make animal classification fun! Sort the animals into categories and think like a scientist!
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Other

It's All About What's Inside. Classification and the Tree of Life [Pdf]

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this science lesson plan, students look at how animals have traditionally been classified in a tree of life diagram by examining the characteristics of plastic eggs. They then analyze the genetic code assigned for each egg and look...
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Episd: Animal Characteristics

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Students will be able to identify and classify organisms that are animals based on recognition of traits presented.
Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Animal Classification

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students will classify organisms into groups and relate how they determined the groups with how and why scientists use classification. They will also demonstrate how animals are sorted into groups...

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