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Sc
Grade 3
Answer the Question
What are the similarities you see
from these pictures?
Answer the Question
What are the differences you see
from these pictures?
Answer the Question
What can you conclude from the
previous questions?
Let us think!
Animals are classified into
6 different categories.
Let us think!
They can be birds,
mammals, reptiles, insects,
fish, and amphibians.
Let us think!
Each category of animals
has similar characteristics
in common.
Characteristics
1. have feathers
2. have wings
3. have beak
4. have 2 legs
5. lay eggs
Birds
Answer the Question
What animals are
classified as birds?
Characteristics
1. have fur/hair
2. give birth
3. feed on their mother’s
milk
Mammals
Answer the Question
What animals are
classified as mammals?
Characteristics
1. skin covered in dry
scales
2. lay eggs
3. cold-blooded
Reptiles
Answer the Question
What animals are
classified as reptiles?
Characteristics
1. Has body divided into
three parts: head,
thorax, abdomen
2. lay eggs
Insects
Answer the Question
What animals are
classified as insects?
Characteristics
1. Live in water
2. Body covered in scales
3. Use gills to breathe
4. Lay eggs
Fish
Answer the Question
What animals are
classified as fish?
Characteristics
1. Live in water
2. Body covered in scales
3 . Use gills to breathe in water
4. Lay eggs
Amphibians
Answer the Question
What animals are
classified as amphibians?