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7. Animal Characteristic Breakdown: Reaching Your Curricular Goals By Teaching with Animals
Animals are inherently interesting to students, so let's take advantage of their characteristics to help you reach your curricular goals! In this episode I introduce different Next Generation Science Standards that can be enhanced by teaching animal characteristics.
I also conduct an animal characteristic breakdown where I explain what makes mammals, birds, fish, reptiles, amphibians, and insects similar and different from each other. I do this by touching on 6 different categories of characteristics including:
Animal covering
How they breathe
How they have young
If they are warm-blooded or…
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