Summary
Happy Learning explains the huge group of animals that have no backbone. A clear, friendly animated lesson that drops easily into a unit, a center, or a quick review.
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Discussion questions
Discussion
Scientists sort living things into big groups by the features they share -- it helps us understand the huge variety of life on Earth.
- What group of living things does this video explain?
- What features put a living thing in that group?
- Can you name one animal or plant that belongs to it?
Quick work-a-long
Vocabulary: living thing, group, feature, classify, vertebrate, invertebrate.
Try it: Pick one living thing from the video and list two features that show which group it belongs to.