By the time you talk about animals try to classify them and enable students to participate more & more:

1.- Think on mammals with fins

2.- Think on mammals with limbs

3.- Think on mammals with lungs

4.- Think on mammals with wings

5.- Think on mammals with beak

6.- Think on an amphibian with lungs & gills

7.- Classify a Sea Horse.

8.- Classify a Jelly fish.

9.- Classify a Star fish.

10.- Think on the name of a very famous sponge.

11.- Think on the type of blood reptiles have.

12.- Name birds which cannot fly.

13.- Classify a caterpillar.

14.- Why spiders are NOT insects?

15.- Why a centipede is NOT a worm?

Answers:

1.- dolphin – whale - …

2.- monkeys – humans - …

3.- horse – dog - …

4.- Bat

5.- Platypus

6.- Frogs have got lungs when they are adults; While they are tadpoles, they have got gills.

7.- Fish

8.- Cniderian

9.- Echinoderm

10. Sponge Bob

11. Reptiles & fish have got cold blood while mammals & birds have got warm blood.

12.- Penguin – Ostrich

13.- A Caterpillar is the larva of an insect, so, they are insects.

14.- Spiders are not insects because they are arachnids. Although insects and arachnids belong to the same group (Arthropods)

15.- A centipede is not a worm. On one hand, centipedes are myriapods, that means they belong to the group of arthropods whereas worms are their own group in invertebrates because they haven’t got legs while centipedes have.