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TITLE:    Animal Round Game

AUTHOR:   Shirley Gaug, Anthony Elementary,
          Anthony, Kansas

GRADE LEVEL/SUBJECT:   5th grade
                       Animal classification

OVERVIEW:  In the study of the classification of
animals, students may become confused over the
characteristics of each animal group.  This game can be
used to help students study animal characteristics.

PURPOSE:  This game is designed to reinforce animal
classification by using a "round" game where all
students participate.

OBJECTIVE(s):  Students will be able to:
1.   Demonstrate knowledge of the characteristics of
     the most common animal groups.
2.   Identify animals within a specific animal group.
3.   Distinguish between the six most common groups of
     animals.

RESOURCES/MATERIALS:  Several sets of cards containing
these clues may be made up or blanks may be left on
laminated cards so that the names of the animals may be
changed using 'vis-a-vis' pens and therefore allowing
for variety.

ACTIVITIES AND PROCEDURES:
1.   Cut clues into 20 strips and laminate with blank
     spaces where animal names or types would be if a
     variety of answers is to be used during the use of
     this game.
2.   Fill in answers if strips are blank.
3.   Give each student a strip.  All students must have
     at least one strip and some may have more than
     one.
4.   Assign a student to begin by reading his/her clue.
5.   Continue around the class until the first student
     gives his/her clue again.
6.   This game may be repeated by moving each strip to
     the next person and having the last person give to
     the first.  Students may want to beat their time
     on this game.


Animal Clue Strips:

I have an animal with six legs, who has one with eight
legs?

I have a (spider, tarantula), who has an animal with an
exoskeleton and lives in the ocean?

I have an (echinoderm, starfish), who has an animal
with gills?

I have a (fish, trout, bluegill), who has an animal
with stereoscopic vision?
I have a (human, gorilla, chimpanzee, lemur), who has
an animal with feathers?

I have a (bird, peacock), who has an animal with webbed
feet?

I have a duck-billed platypus, who has another water
dwelling mammal?

I have a (dolphin, whale, porpoise), who has a
marsupial?

I have an (opossum, kangaroo), who has a feline?

I have a (tiger, lion), who has an animal(that goes
through complete metamorphosis, with wings and scales)?

I have a (moth,butterfly), who has a cold blooded
animal that lives the first part of its' life in water?

I have a frog, who has the two types of animals that
are warm-blooded?   I have birds and mammals, who have
animals that lay leathery eggs?

I have (reptiles, lizards, snakes), who has the type of
animals that would have a queen?

I have (insects, bees, termites), what type of animal
can live  in any climate?

I have (humans, mammals) what type of animal
communicates by dancing?

I have (insects, bees), who has a type of animal that
provides milk for its' young?

I have mammals, who has an animal that hibernates?

I have  a  bear, who has an extinct animal?

I have a dinosaur, who has an insect?

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