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Amphibia N Reptile Mammal Insect: in Your Books, Can You Match Each Heading To The Picture?

This document provides information about classifying different types of animals including mammals, amphibians, reptiles, insects, fish, and birds. It includes a classification key and diagram for students to use to classify sample animals. Students are then asked to use an online resource to look up additional animals and classify them in a table. The overall document aims to teach students about animal classification and have them practice classifying animals into groups.

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Amphibia N Reptile Mammal Insect: in Your Books, Can You Match Each Heading To The Picture?

This document provides information about classifying different types of animals including mammals, amphibians, reptiles, insects, fish, and birds. It includes a classification key and diagram for students to use to classify sample animals. Students are then asked to use an online resource to look up additional animals and classify them in a table. The overall document aims to teach students about animal classification and have them practice classifying animals into groups.

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Retention Quiz

In your books, can you match each heading to the picture?

amphibia mammal
n reptile insect

Can you list any characteristics which are true of all


amphibians, reptiles, mammals and insects?
Can I classify animals using a classification
diagram?

Which is the odd one out? Can you explain


why?
Year 6: Animals and their habitats.
Subject Specific Vocabulary Classification key
Mammal Warm-blooded vertebrates
such as lions, elephants and
human.
Amphibian Cold-blooded vertebrates
which can live on land and
in water.
Reptile Cold-blooded vertebrates
including tortoises, turtles,
snakes, lizards, alligators
and crocodiles.
Fish Cold-blooded vertebrates,
usually with scales and
breathing through gills
which live in water.
By the end of the topic pupils will be able to create their own branching tree based on
Bird Warm-blooded, egg-laying, animals from Antarctica.
vertebrates with feathers
and wings.
Insect Small animals with six legs Important facts to know by the end of the
or fewer. classification of animals topic:
Vertebrate Any animal with a back
bone.
• Be able to classify living things into broad groups
Invertebrate Any animal without a according to observable characteristics and based
backbone. on similarities and differences.
Micro-organism Micro-organisms are tiny
creatures which can only be • know how living things have been classified.
This is our classification tree that we are going to be using today. You
are going to look at the different animals on the next slide and decide
what they are.
Can you work out which category each animal belongs to
using the classification key?
How did you do? Were you able to correctly classify the
animals following the branching diagram?
Go to
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/search

Type in the name of the animal and you will


find a selection of information. You are going to
then write what you think its classification
should be. Write the date and LI and then create
a small table to write in. I've shown an example
below.

In your books write:

Friday
Animal8th January Classification
Can I classify animals?
Bee
Butterfly
Ant
Mayfly
Dragonfly
Grasshopper
Moth

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