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Classification of Intertidal Organisma

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students categorize animals. In this animal classification lesson, students group animals by their characteristics. Students break into groups and work together to classify the animals. Students fill out a graphic organizer with their...
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Classify That!

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Young scholars get acquainted with diverse forms of life by using modern biological classification systems to group animals that are related. They explore basic scientific groupings like genus, species, mammals, fish, birds, amphibians,...
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A Planet Full of Animals

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Young scholars study animals and practice classifying them through observation activities. In this animal classification lesson, students complete a KWL chart about animals. Young scholars then sort pictures of animals into chart...
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Worksheet
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Classifying into Categories

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this classification worksheet, students organize their thoughts by classifying the words from the box into the following categories: birds, mammals, reptiles, and fish.
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Lesson Plan
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Around-The-World-Zoo

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Junior biologists design and maintain a website about a zoo by researching, classifying, and providing the correct habitats for the animals they choose to have in their zoo. This technology-based project can last over an entire semester...
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Larson Lab

Animal Classification

For Teachers 5th - 8th Standards
How are animals classified? Scholars explore animal classification by observing non-living and living specimens. They learn how to organize animals into vertebrates and invertebrates and identify the five vertebrate groups: mammals,...
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Classification of Animals

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders practice classiyfying items and identify three major characteristics scientists use to classify animals. They describe the differences between ectothermic and endothermic animals.
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Animal Investigation

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders gather information and classify animals. In this animal investigation lesson, 3rd graders research animals, and organize the information into notebook.
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Critter Museum

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students act as directors of a new science museum where they have decided to set up a display of animals without backbones that are found in the area. To organize their display, they need to sort and classify a collection of animals and...
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What are Mammals?

For Teachers K - 1st
Pupils differentiate between wild and tame animals, explain how to classify mammals into groups based on common charactertistics and comprehend the values of zoos. They listen as the teacher reads Psalm 50:10 and explains that all of the...
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The Grouchy Ladybug

For Teachers K - 1st
Learners learn about sorting and classifying objects by size while reading Eric Carle's "The Grouchy Ladybug". In this sorting and classifying instructional activity, students first listen to and interact with the story. They then look...
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Living vs. Non-Living Things

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders describe the characteristics that determine if something is living, dead, or non-living. They determine the difference between living and non-living things. Students determine if an object is living or non-living and...
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Invasive Aquatic Plant Identification

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students observe aquatic plants and animals and identify their systems. In this plants and animals lesson plan, students compare systems of organisms and orally express how plants and animals rely on each other.
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Introduction To the Classification of Organisms

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students discuss how scientists classify organisms. In pairs, they analyze and label "specimens" of breakfast cereals in order to classify them into the correct group. They create a dichotomous key for several species of animals.
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Critters in Your Own Backyard

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students identify various animals and their habitats, as well as their specific traits In this animal habitat lesson, students list animals they've seen in their backyard. Students select one animal and do research. Students then answer...
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Worksheet
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Identifying Vertebrates

For Students 6th - 12th
In this biology worksheet, students look for the answers to how to classify animals. They specifically focus upon the vertebrates while differentiating the characteristics from other organisms.
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Lesson Plan
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Levels of Classification

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Learners use diagrams to compare structural differences that taxonomists use to classify animals. In this classification lesson plan, students compare structures of different species from given diagrams. In one diagram they identify the...
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Answering a Research Question

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students explore beginning research skills. In this nonfiction comprehension and research lesson, students generate possible research questions to answer when given the book title of Animals of the Sea and Shore by Ann O. Squire....
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Animals Galore

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders use structural characteristics to sort and classify animals into groups.
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Worksheet
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Classification of Animals

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this science worksheet, students color on of a series of four animals to indicate which one does not belong in a zoo. Students color the pig, mermaid, kitten, snail, and horse.
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Worksheet
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Classifying Life

For Students 9th - 12th
In this classifying life worksheet, high schoolers review the 5 kingdoms of organisms by completing 10 matching and 7 fill in the blank questions.
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Organizer
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QUIZ 1A: Nouns, People, Places, Animals, and Things

For Students 4th - 7th
In this noun classification worksheet, students 25 nouns in the provided word bank and classify them in a graphic organizer according to common and proper nouns that that name people, places, or things.
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Organizer
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QUIZ 1A: Nouns-People, Places, Animals, and Things

For Students 4th - 6th
In this nouns review worksheet, students examine 50 nouns and classify them in the correct columns. This worksheets requires students to note the differences between common and proper nouns.
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Classifying Objects

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders work in small groups to sort and classify a variety of objects. They develop criteria for sorting and explain the characteristics they chose for classification. Groups record and share their classifications.