Lesson 1

Identifying features of living things

Look at the different features of animals and learn how to group them based on their features.

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Our goal this lesson is to group animals based on their external features. This will help us understand the needs of different animals

Watch the video about grouping animals.

Click on the links below to practice grouping living things based on their features.

Vertebrates / Invertebrates

Wings / No wings

Living / Non Living

Vertebrate Groups

Now it is your turn to group at home or school.

What you need: 1 piece of paper, pencil and colouring in pencils

Fold a single page equally into for squares. (Like the photo on the left).
Choose 4 animals and draw them as best you can.
Label all the features of the animals including; how many feet, how many eyes, what kind of skin, does it have a tail, does it have a mouth etc
Once you have labelled all your animals and labelled them, you can colour them in.

Select an animal from the pictures below and keep it secret.
Find a partner such as your mum, dad, brother, uncle, etc.
Take turns, asking questions about your partner’s secret animal and try to guess what their secret animal is.
If your partner answers “no”, it’s their turn. Keep going until both are correctly guessed.