Animals

Animal ID - These starters challenge students to identify a variety of animals. Many of them focus on common species in Illinois, but you can edit them to apply to your state.

Topics: Fish, Frogs, Owls, Raptors, Salamanders, Snakes, Spiders, Turtles, Furbearers, Animal Tracks 1, Animal Tracks 2

Classification Challenges - From kingdoms to types of mammals, these challenges review classification actvities that we have done in class.

Topics:  Kingdoms, Arthropods, Mollusks, Mammals 1, Mammals 2, Mammals 3, SpongeBob Classification

Mystery Critters - Each of these "Who am I?" starters has three animals for the kids to identify using a series of clues. Most of them focus on Illinois animals, but you can edit them to apply to your state.

Topics: Who Am I 1, Who Am I 2, Who Am I 3, Who Am I 4, Who Am I 5, Who Am I 6, Who Am I 7

Scrambles - For these challenges, the names of various animals have been scrambled. Students will need to unscrable the letters and use the clues provided to identify the animals.

Topics: Critters 1, Critters 2, Critters 3, Critters 4, Illinois Critters

Birds - I use these starters during our annual Bald Eagle unit that go along with our community's Bald Eagle Days event.

Topics:  Bird Beaks, Bird Feet, Bird Nests, Backyard Birds, Raptor ID
Eagle Trivia: Set 1, Set 2, Set 3, Set 4, Set 5

Insects - This collection of startes are used during our Adopt-An-Insect unit and includes challenges for trivia, identification, general knowledge, and classification.

Trivia: Set 1, Set 2, Set 3, Set 4
Insect Basics: Set 1, Set 2, Set 3
Insect ID (Who am I): Set 1, Set 2, Set 3, Set 4
Classification: Orders 1, Orders 2, Orders 3

Animal Jokes - Try a few of these for some laughs!  

Topics: Bug Jokes 1, Bug Jokes 2, Frog Jokes, Snake Jokes, Spider Jokes

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