Watch this excellent lesson in classifying animals.
Student Application
Watch this excellent lesson in classifying animals.
Learning Objectives
Students will understand that organisms, like animals, are grouped together by the ways in which they are alike and different; this is called classifying.
Students will know the six different classifications of animals and describe the characteristics of each.
Classifying: Before watching the video, have students work together to make groups of familiar objects in the classroom. Students can even sort themselves by height, hair color, eye color, shoe type, etc. Encourage students to find new ways of classifying the same objects. For example, bottle tops can be separated into plastic and not plasti...