Classification of Animals: Taxonomic Groups - 8 Animals Groups, 8 Posters

We have devised this product to support our own teaching in supporting students classifying animals into different groups. Having already produced decision trees, games and an Escape Room, we turned our attention to posters and postcards to support our students visually within the classroom.

We have produced 8 different posters for the following animal groups:

• Mammal
• Bird
• Reptile
• Fish
• Amphibian
• Crustacean
• Arachnid
• Insect

Each poster focuses on the features of the animals which make it that kind of animal - asking the question - "What makes a falcon a bird?", or "What makes a spider an arachnid?" and so on.

The features we have included are:

• Taxonomic group name
• Skeleton type (exoskeleton, internal skeleton, shell)
• Nutrition (herbivore, carnivore, omnivore, predator)
• Reproduction (lays eggs, gives birth to live young)
• Features (physical, blood type - cold or warm blooded, ability to breathe)
• Life cycle diagram
• Movement
• Collective noun (if specific to the group rather than individual animals)

Not only this, but we have included a black and white version of all of the posters, as well as a blank template to support either a research project for students before revealing the answers on the posters, or to extend the learning to other taxonomic groups - or even to plants.

Alongside the posters (color and black and white) and the template for further research, we have also included postcard versions of the posters to be able to allow the students to have their own copies in order to revise the characteristics of each group. Our students took these home and it supported home based learning, as well as being included in our Science Center activity bank.

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