An animal is a living thing which moves and eats other animals or plants.

A mammal is a warm-blooded animal that gives birth to live young and has hair or fur.

Hair is a thin, flexible structure that grows from the skin of mammals.

Milk is a liquid produced by mammal mothers to feed newborns.

Most mammals give birth to living young rather than hatching their young from eggs.

Naming mammals

Science

Naming and grouping familiar animals

Naming birds and reptiles

Naming fish and amphibians

Animal structure

What animals eat

In this Naming and grouping animals unit, pupils learn to group animals according to what they eat. In the Introduction to food chains unit they will build on this knowledge to learn about simple feeding relationships

Pupils will draw upon prior learning about animals in EYFS and their own everyday experiences. In this Naming and grouping animals unit, pupils will build on this knowledge to identify and name a variety of common animals and learn about different ways animals can be grouped

This unit focuses on asking simple questions, identifying and classifying common animals, and gathering data. It includes identifying animals like fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals, categorising them as carnivores, herbivores, or omnivores, and comparing their structures.

Naming and grouping animals

Subjects which particular individuals may be sensitive to, eg, adoption, migration, bereavement or death, divorce, poverty, deprivation.

Depiction or discussion of sensitive content

What do mammals grow on their body at some point in their life?

they stay the same temperature even if the temperature around them changes

Mammals are warm-blooded. What does warm-blooded mean?

What do mammals feed their newborn babies?

Lucas has been sorting animals into mammals and not mammals.  He said a robin is a mammal because it has a backbone and is warm blooded. Is he correct?

a bat gives birth to live young, birds lay eggs

a mother bat feeds the babbies milk, mother birds do not make milk

Wild animals should not be kept as pets because ...

If an animal is not familiar to you it means ...

Naming mammals

Lesson outcome

Content guidance