Cut and Paste: Animal Coverings – Scales, Feathers and Fur

Animal coverings sort: students cut out animal pictures and glue each under scales, feathers or fur, using an anchor chart that shows examples of each group.
Year levels
Pre-school (Early Years), Foundation–Year 2
File type
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Updated May 23, 2022

Subject
Animals, Life Sciences, Science
Topic
Animal Coverings, Sorting Animals
Resource types
Activities
Preparation
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Australian Curriculum content descriptions
AC9SFU01 — observe external features of plants and animals and describe ways they can be grouped…

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This resource includes beautiful cards showing the different animal coverings.

Students can use this resource to learn to identify the animals as well as sorting according to their covering (feathers, scales, and fur).

Available in black and white as well as coloured.

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Teaching tips & learning objectives

Learning objectives

  • Classify animals by body covering: scales, feathers or fur

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Australian Curriculum (Version 9.0)

Australian Curriculum content descriptions

Australian Curriculum content descriptions

  • AC9SFU01 — observe external features of plants and animals and describe ways they can be grouped based on these features

Core concepts

  • Animal coverings

  • Classifying animals

  • Scales, feathers and fur

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