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Animal Groups & Classification

Sorting animals into groups by the features they share.

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What this lesson covers

Animal Groups & Classification is a 6-part Class 3 Science lesson. Each part makes one point and then hands over to the next, so it can be read in a sitting or picked up again at the part you stopped on. It defines the idea in plain words before using it, works through an example step by step, breaks the topic into its parts and compares them, ends with a recap of what to remember.

How it begins

Scientists sort animals into groups by the features they share. The five main groups of animals with backbones are fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals.

The 6 parts

  1. Sorting by features
  2. Fish and amphibians
  3. Reptiles and birds
  4. Mammals
  5. Classification champion!
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