5 Animal Groups Characteristics of Animals Free Worksheets 2

Characteristics of Animals
Mammals Birds Reptiles Amphibians Fish

Backbone Backbone Backbone Backbone Backbone
Warm blooded Warm blooded Cold blooded Cold blooded Cold blooded
Live Young Lay Eggs Lay Eggs on Land Lay Eggs in Water Breathe with gills
Hair or fur Feathers Scales Young breathe with Scales
Breathe Air with Beaks Breathe Air with gills and live in Have fins
Lungs 2 legs, 2 wings Lungs water;
Feed their young Hollow bones Live on Land Adults breathe
with milk Breathe air with through their skin
Live on Land lungs. (they have lungs,
Live on land but they are small
and are not used
much).
Skin must be kept
moist.
Adults live on land.
Animals
Match the Animal Group with Any Characteristic that applies:
Backbone
Cold Blooded
2 Scaly legs; 2
Wings
Fur or Hair
Adults have Gills
Skin must stay wet;

Breathes through skin
© By Liesl at homeschoolden.com
Animal Characteristics
Match the Animal Group with Any Characteristic that applies:
Babies drink
milk from its
mother
Warm Blooded
Breathes Air
only with
Young live in
Lungs Fins
the water
Beaks
Lays Eggs
Ability to live on land
and water
Feathers
Scales
© By Liesl at homeschoolden.com
Animal Unit 50+ pages
When ED (my youngest) was about this same age, she wanted to study all things about
animals! I made an entire packet (50+ pages) about animals, body coverings (feathers, fur,
scales or skin activities), animal characteristics, insects vs. spiders, wild vs. domestic animals,
animal tracks, nocturnal vs. diurnal and more. Here's one quick screen-shot of that unit. You
can find out more here: Animal Unit on vertebrates and invertebrates.
Animal Unit (cont.)
Animal Unit (cont.)
This unit goes into both vertebrates and invertebrates. We went into more depth about the characteristics of the
5 animal groups (plus covered the classification of invertebrates, animal tracks, domesticated vs. wild animals
and other things.
We talked about the types of animals and their characteristics. We had some amazing discussions about this
because of all the exceptions (the sheet on the right):
What am I? - 5 Animal Group Worksheets

Animal Unit (cont.)
There is a cut-and-paste activity about the 5 animal groups (mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians and fish):
Study of Invertebrates: We also spent time in this unit on invertebrates and invertebrate classification. As you
can see we talked about some of the different invertebrate groups (insects, crustaceans, centipedes, arachnids,
mollusks, etc.) There's a invertebrate classification chart, a cut-and-paste-activity, and activities about spiders
vs. insects.
Animal Unit (cont.)
Animal Track Activities:
I added in some fun pages about... yes, animal tongues!! These pages talk about why tongues are important
(what their function is) and has "Whose tongues are these?" page where kids have to identify the tongues they
see in the picture provided. For younger kids, there are tracing pages about the function of tongues. :)
Biology – Biome Unit 70+ pages
After the Animal Unit, we went on to study biomes & habitats, feedings relationships and more.
Rainforest Unit 50+ pages
Our 50+ page Amazon Rainforest Packet includes notebook pages, animal and insect
identification pages, animal and insect Montessori 3-part cards, layers of the rainforest
worksheets and other activities.
Rainforest Unit (cont.)
Rainforest Unit (cont.)
Life Cycles Packet (50+ pages)
Ocean Unit 65+ pages
In our ocean studies we explored
• Marine Habitats
• Water Form Words (bay, estuary, lagoon, fjord, etc.)
• Features of the Ocean Floor (trench, seamount, guyot, etc.)
• Ocean Navigation (early navigation with astrolabes & the constellations, modern SONAR)
• Salinity
• Ocean Currents (Surface & Deep Sea Currents)
• Ocean Life:
o Special Body Features
o Fish Body Shape and Movement
o Biological Interactions: Mutualism and Commensalism in the Ocean
o Deep Sea Life – Bioluminescence, Anglerfish
• ocean zones and different layers of the ocean
Ocean Unit (cont.)
You might be interested in some of our other packets:
World Animals Packet: When the kids were younger we talked about the 7 continents. That included a study
of the World Animals. You might want to check out our Montessori World Animal 3-Part cards and the 60+
pages of activities in this packet:
The World Animal packet includes 1) matching & tracing pages, 2) fun-fact tracing pages, 3) do-a-dot pages,
and 4) outline maps for each continent and a cut-and-paste activity. It also includes satellite images of the 7
continents.
You can check out some of our other Science Packets as well, such as
our popular Digestive System Unit!
States of Matter, Changing States of Matter Unit
Simple Machines Unit

Dinosaur Packet for Ages 3-7
60+ Page Dinosaur Packet!
• Montessori 3-Part Dinosaur Cards

• Dinosaur Lapbook
• Letter Recognition Activities
• Number Activities and Games
• Dinosaur Game Board
• Fast Fact Information Cards
• Dinosaur Writing Cards
• Math Games
• Bingo Cards and more!

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Characteristics of Animals

Mammals Birds Reptiles Amphibians Fish

Skin must stay wet;

What am I? - 5 Animal Group Worksheets

Animal Track Activities:

States of Matter, Changing States of Matter Unit

Simple Machines Unit

• Montessori 3-Part Dinosaur Cards

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