1. Features of Living Things
Gr C: Explain the difference between vertebrate and invertebrates.
Gr B: Categorise groups of vertebrates and invertebrates
Gr A: Classify organisms using a key.
Starter
Key Words
Vertebrates
Invertebrates
What’s the kingdom?
Organisms from this kingdom are multicellular and they produce their own food.
Organisms from this kingdom are unicellular and have a nucleus holding the DNA.
What’s the kingdom?
These organisms have to consume others for nutrition and breakdown into sub classes of mammal, reptile, fish and more.
PLANTS
ANIMAL
PROTOCTISTA

2. Vertebrate Invertebrate
An organism that possesses a vertebral column (backbone).
EXAMPLES
Fish
Cats
Sheep
Lions
Reptiles
Birds
Toads
Whale
Mammals
Humans
Rats
Monkeys
Invertebrate
An organism that doesn’t possess a vertebral column (backbone).
EXAMPLES
Worms
Slugs
Lobsters
Spiders
Snails
Insects
Crabs
centipedes

3. Features of Living Things
Gr C: Explain the difference between vertebrate and invertebrates.
Gr B: Categorise groups of vertebrates and invertebrates
Gr A: Classify organisms using a key.
Starter
Key Words
Vertebrates
Invertebrates
What’s the kingdom?
Organisms from this kingdom are multicellular and they produce their own food.
Organisms from this kingdom are unicellular and have a nucleus holding the DNA.
What’s the kingdom?
These organisms have to consume others for nutrition and breakdown into sub classes of mammal, reptile, fish and more.
PLANTS
ANIMAL
PROTOCTISTA

4. Vertebrate Invertebrate Class Vote!
What would you like to learn about first; vertebrates or invertebrates?
Vertebrate
Invertebrate

5. The 5 Classes of Vertebrate
Fish
Amphibians
Mammals
Reptiles
Birds

6. The 5 Classes of Vertebrate Fan
Group
Definition
Example
Amphibians
Most fly , have wings, feathers and beaks, eggs have hard shells. Warm blooded.
Human and horse
Birds
Have scales, fins and breathe through gills. Cold blooded.
Frog and newt
Fish
Have moist skin, breath through lungs, live on land and water . Cold blooded.
Eagle and sparrow
Mammals
Have dry scaly skins and breathe through lungs. Cold blooded
Shark and trout
Reptiles
Are covered in hair or fur, give birth to live young and feed them on milk. Warm blooded.
Reptile and fish groups
Vertebrates
Animals with a backbone
Snake and tortoise
Produces live young and provides milk for young.
Reproduce using internal fertilization.
Has fur on its exterior for warmth.
Warm blooded organism.
Produces live young.

7. The 5 Classes of Vertebrate Fan
Group
Definition
Example
Amphibians
Most fly , have wings, feathers and beaks, eggs have hard shells. Warm blooded.
Human and horse
Birds
Have scales, fins and breathe through gills. Cold blooded.
Frog and newt
Fish
Have moist skin, breath through lungs, live on land and water . Cold blooded.
Eagle and sparrow
Mammals
Have dry scaly skins and breathe through lungs. Cold blooded
Shark and trout
Reptiles
Are covered in hair or fur, give birth to live young and feed them on milk. Warm blooded.
Reptile and fish groups
Vertebrates
Animals with a backbone
Snake and tortoise
Forelimbs are modified as wings, but not necessarily used for flight.
Produces eggs with a hard outer shell.
Feathers, used for flight and insulation.
Warm blooded organism.
Beak with nostrils on the upper part.

8. The 5 Classes of Vertebrate Fan
Group
Definition
Example
Amphibians
Most fly , have wings, feathers and beaks, eggs have hard shells. Warm blooded.
Human and horse
Birds
Have scales, fins and breathe through gills. Cold blooded.
Frog and newt
Fish
Have moist skin, breath through lungs, live on land and water . Cold blooded.
Eagle and sparrow
Mammals
Have dry scaly skins and breathe through lungs. Cold blooded
Shark and trout
Reptiles
Are covered in hair or fur, give birth to live young and feed them on milk. Warm blooded.
Reptile and fish groups
Vertebrates
Animals with a backbone
Snake and tortoise
Had gills for breathing underwater.
Has scales and normally fins.
Produces soft shelled eggs.
Can only live in water.

9. The 5 Classes of Vertebrate Fan
Group
Definition
Example
Amphibians
Most fly , have wings, feathers and beaks, eggs have hard shells. Warm blooded.
Human and horse
Birds
Have scales, fins and breathe through gills. Cold blooded.
Frog and newt
Fish
Have moist skin, breath through lungs, live on land and water . Cold blooded.
Eagle and sparrow
Mammals
Have dry scaly skins and breathe through lungs. Cold blooded
Shark and trout
Reptiles
Are covered in hair or fur, give birth to live young and feed them on milk. Warm blooded.
Reptile and fish groups
Vertebrates
Animals with a backbone
Snake and tortoise
Dry, scaly skin- limits water loss.
Cold blooded organism
Produces eggs with a hard outer shell.
Uses internal fertilization to reproduce.

10. The 5 Classes of Vertebrate Fan
Group
Definition
Example
Amphibians
Most fly , have wings, feathers and beaks, eggs have hard shells. Warm blooded.
Human and horse
Birds
Have scales, fins and breathe through gills. Cold blooded.
Frog and newt
Fish
Have moist skin, breath through lungs, live on land and water . Cold blooded.
Eagle and sparrow
Mammals
Have dry scaly skins and breathe through lungs. Cold blooded
Shark and trout
Reptiles
Are covered in hair or fur, give birth to live young and feed them on milk. Warm blooded.
Reptile and fish groups
Vertebrates
Animals with a backbone
Snake and tortoise
Produces eggs with a soft outer shell, needs to be submerged in water.
Cold blooded organism.
Has moist scaly skin.

11. What group do i belong to? 1
Duck –Billed Platypus
I am an animal that lays soft shelled eggs. I live mainly in water. I feed my young on milk. I am covered in brown fur. My body temperature is around 30oC. I have a beak that I search for food with on the river bottom. The males of my species have a venomous spike on their hind legs.
Student Task!
Write down the features in the passage that make the Duck-Billed platypus a mammal.
STOP
I am a Mammal!

12. What group do i belong to? 3
Loggerhead Turtle
I live in water and breathe through lungs. My skin is covered in pale brown dry scales. I lay tough leathery eggs on land. I am cold blooded. I feed on invertebrates like crabs and clams. I can live for over 39 years.
Student Task!
Write down the features in the passage that make the Loggerhead Turtle a reptile.
STOP
I am a reptile!

13. What group do i belong to? 4
Vampire Bat
I live in caves and dark places. I have a wing span of 18cm and I can fly. I give birth to live young and feed them on milk. I weigh 57 grams and my body is covered in brown fur. As an adult I only feed on blood. I live up to 9 years.
Student Task!
STOP
Write down the features in the passage that make the Vampire bat a mammal.
I am a Mammal!

14. What group do i belong to? 5
Emu
I am covered in brown feathers. I can run at around 50 Km/hr. I lay eggs with hard shells. I eat stones that help me to digest my food. I eat plants and small insects. I live up to 30years.
Student Task!
Write down the features in the passage that make the Emu a bird.
STOP
I am a Bird!

15. Vertebrates
All have a back bone
Vertebrates can be separated into classes based on their skin! No
Yes
Do they have smooth skin?
Scales
Skin
Scales or skin?
Dry
Skin
Are the scales dry?
Feathers or skin?
Wet
Feathers
Mammals
Birds
Amphibians
Reptiles
Fish

16. Features of Living Things
Gr C: Explain the difference between vertebrate and invertebrates.
Gr B: Categorise groups of vertebrates and invertebrates
Gr A: Classify organisms using a key.
Starter
Key Words
Vertebrates
Invertebrates
What’s the kingdom?
Organisms from this kingdom are multicellular and they produce their own food.
Organisms from this kingdom are unicellular and have a nucleus holding the DNA.
What’s the kingdom?
These organisms have to consume others for nutrition and breakdown into sub classes of mammal, reptile, fish and more.
PLANTS
ANIMAL
PROTOCTISTA

17. The Classes of InVertebrates
Annelids
Arthropods
Nematodes
Molluscs
Myriapods
Crustacea
Arachnids
Insects

18. Create a poster demonstrating the characteristics required to be a:
HOME LEARNING
Using your text book, information on the internet, and any scientific books.
Create a poster demonstrating the characteristics required to be a:
Nematode
Molluscs
Arthropod
Annelids
Crustacea
You should also include examples, pictures and diagrams of these organisms.

19. The Classes of
InVertebrates

21. Head
Thorax
Antenna
Compound eye
Wings
Mouth parts
Legs
Abdomen

23. Features of Living Things
Gr C: Explain the difference between vertebrate and invertebrates.
Gr B: Categorise groups of vertebrates and invertebrates
Gr A: Classify organisms using a key.
Starter
Key Words
Vertebrates
Invertebrates
What’s the kingdom?
Organisms from this kingdom are multicellular and they produce their own food.
Organisms from this kingdom are unicellular and have a nucleus holding the DNA.
What’s the kingdom?
These organisms have to consume others for nutrition and breakdown into sub classes of mammal, reptile, fish and more.
PLANTS
ANIMAL
PROTOCTISTA

24. Get out of your homework!
Beat the Teacher
Create 3 questions relating to invertebrates of vertebrates. The questions have to involve you describing one type of vertebrate or invertebrate. The person answering the question has to guess what the class is!
Get out of your homework!
If anyone can guess what class an organism is before the teacher then they will get out of this weeks homework!

25. Create a poster demonstrating the characteristics required to be a:
HOME LEARNING
Using your text book, information on the internet, and any scientific books.
Create a poster demonstrating the characteristics required to be a:
Nematode
Molluscs
Arthropod
Annelids
Crustacea
You should also include examples, pictures and diagrams of these organisms.