Kid's Corner - animal classification. #87: Use MS Word’s Diagrams to Teach Animal Characteristics. Use MS Word to organize an animal group (reptiles, mammals, amphibians, etc.) and their traits. This project is a favorite with my students, mostly because of the stunning animal picture they get to embed into the background.
–from 55 Technology Projects for the Digital Classroom. Preview available on Amazon.com and Scribd.com If you can’t read this, send me an email at info@structuredlearning.net (they’ll forward it) and request a pdf copy Like this: Like Loading... Mammal. Mammal Characteristics. What is a Mammal. Mammals are animals. Yes but so are Insects, Reptiles, Spiders, Sponges and Slugs. We need to do better than that. Mammals have a back-bone.Yes but so do Fishes and Frogs and they are not mammals. Mammals are warm-blooded. Yes but so are birds, and birds are not mammals either.
Obviously, what we need in order to define a mammal are some characters, or traits that are possessed by all mammals and are unique to mammals, i.e. they do not occur in fishes and /slugs etc.. Character One The first characteristic that guarantees that an animal is a mammal is that it (if it is female) can produce milk to feed its young. Character Two The second test is the possession of hair, something humans often have problems with but which they should respect more. Character Three The lower jaw in mammals is a single bone on either side.
Character Four The mammal middle ear, and only the mammal middle ear, contains 3 bones. Character Five Character Six Finally mammals have a diaphragm. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.