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What features do scientists use to classify animals into groups? Class groups examine a series of paired images of vertebrates (a bass and a trout, a toad and a newt, a crocodile and a tortoise, an owl and a robin, a tiger and a bear) and list what the pairs have in common.
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- Designed to prepare learners for the Classifying Vertebrates Performance Task, the activity could also be used to introduce the topic and generate interest in a unit focusing on vertebrates
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- The activity introduces key terms and concepts so that all learners are prepared for the assessment
- The packet includes the animal images
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- The activity does not address the question of why scientists chose these five groups of vertebrates
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