This document discusses how animals can be grouped based on their external features. It provides examples of how fish, elephants, and other animals can be identified by traits like fins, trunks, scales, legs, ears and more. Animals are grouped according to similarities in these external features, such as having scales, fins, feathers, horns, hair or other distinguishing qualities. They can also be grouped by the number of legs or characteristics of their beaks, claws, shells or wings.

1. Animals (Year 3)
The External Features of Animals
1. There are different kinds of animals living on Earth.
2. Some of them look similar but some are different.
3. We can identify them by their external features.
4. The external features of an animal are the details of the animal that you can see.
For examples:
• A fish has fins and a tail. Its body is covered with scales. A fish has no legs.
• An elephant has four legs, a trunk, tusks, head and eyes. It also has big ears and body.

3. Grouping of Animals
We can group animals based on the external features that they share like similarities in external
features.
1. Animals can be grouped in different ways, for examples:
• Fish, snake and crocodile can be grouped together because they have scales.
• Fish and shark can be grouped together because they have fins.
• Buffalo, rhinoceros, saber antelope and deer can be grouped together because they
have horns.
• Peacock, swan, parrot, bird, duck and chicken can be grouped together because they
have feathers.
• While lion, baboon and highland cow can be grouped together because they have hair.
2. We can also group animals according to the number of legs that they have.
• Animals with many legs - centipede and millipede
• Animals with no legs - snake, snail and fish;
• Animals with two legs - duck, flamingo and rooster
• Animals with four legs - crocodile, toad, rat, elephant, horse, tiger and kangaroo

4. • Animals with six legs - grasshopper, mosquito, bee and fly
• Animals with eight legs - spider.
3. Cat, squirrel, wolf and koala bear can be grouped together because they have furs.
4. We can also group animals according to the shape of beaks they have.
• Animals with long beak - ibis and pelican;
• Animals with short and hooked beak - parrot and eagle;
• Animal with flat beak - ostrich.
5. Crab and parrot can be grouped together because they have claws.
6. Tortoise, turtle and snail can be grouped together because they have shells.
7. Butterfly, bee and dragonfly can be grouped together because they have wings.