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