Transcript Animal_Classification_Template_use_PowerPoint_2nd_grd.ppt

Directions
(Delete this slide before you save it to your folder. Therefore slide 2 will become
slide 1 and so on.)
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Slide 1: Students delete the words your name and have them type in their name.
Slide 2: Students sort the animals into different categories according to
characteristics that they see or know.
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Slide 3: Students explain why they put the animals into the categories that they
created.
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Slide 4 & 5: Students are given 3 animals and they have to explain the
characteristics they share that would allow them to be categorized in the same
group. Click after the * to begin typing your sentence.
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Slide 6: Students add 3 different clipart animals and then describe what
characteristic they all have in common. Click after the * to begin typing your
sentence.
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Slide 7: This slide contains links to websites that the students can visit (The
students will have to view the slideshow in order for the links to work. To do this
they can click Slide Show and then View Show, or they can hit the F5 key.)
Student Expectations
2.8 The student distinguishes between living and nonliving objects. The student is
expected to:
A. Identify characteristics of living organisms.
2.9 The student knows that living organisms have basic needs.
A. Identify the external characteristics of different kinds of plants and animals that allow for their
basic needs to be met.
Animals Characteristics
Written by
(your name)
Sort the animals into 3 different categories
according to their characteristics.
Category 1
Category 3
Category 2
Write a sentence describing how you decided to sort
the animals into each category on the previous slide.
Category 1
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Category 2
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Category 3
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What characteristics do all these animals share?
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What characteristics would this group of animals
share?
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Directions: Insert 3 different clipart animals that all have a similar
characteristic in common.
• What characteristic do these animals have
in common?
*
Web Resources
• http://www.beaconlearningcenter.com/We
bLessons/CritterCraze/animals001.htm
• http://www.fossweb.com/modulesK2/AnimalsTwobyTwo/index.html
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