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Explore the similarities and differences among animals, classify them into phyla based on their characteristics, and analyze the accuracy of your classification. Learn about invertebrate phyla and understand how biologists group animals.
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Take out notebook and answer walk-in. What are some similarities and differences among animals?
Classifying Animals Directions • Spread out and read the animal cards. • Use the list of phylum characteristics paper to decide what phylum best fits for each of the animal cards. • Make an organized chart for each phylum with the card numbers. • Ask for the key to see how accurate you were. • Answer the analysis questions.
Analysis Questions (complete sentences) • Did your categories change when you looked at the key and followed the biologists’ correct system of phyla? How? • Look carefully at the phylum cards to see how biologists group these animals. What types of characteristics are used to group animals into phyla? • Animals without backbones are called invertebrates. How many invertebrate phyla were in this activity? List these phyla.