This document provides information about the characteristics of different groups of vertebrate animals. It discusses the key characteristics of five groups: mammals, birds, fish, reptiles and amphibians. For each group, it identifies whether they are warm-blooded or cold-blooded, how they breathe, their skin/body covering, whether they lay eggs, and other distinguishing features. The document also includes a matching activity to test understanding of which characteristics apply to different types of animals like lizards, bats, pigeons and newts.

1. Characteristics of
Vertebrate Animals
Quarter 2 Week 5

3. Word Hunt:
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4. What group of animal does Carabao
belongs?
Mammals

5. To what group of animals do snakes
belong?

6. Milkfish belongs to what group of
animals?

7. How about the frog, what group of
animals?

8. What group of animals are you going
to classify this maya?

9. Video viewing
https://www.youtube.co
m/watch?v=2iEEJaJOUls

10. Let’s find out the different characteristics of
groups of vertebrates.
1. Setting of standard
2. Group Activity
(Differentiated Activities)
3. Pupils will now answer the given
data/chart

11. Fill up the needed information
Group Group
Of vertebrates
Characteristics
1 Mammals
2 Fishes
3 Birds
4 Reptiles
5 Amphibians

12. Rubrics for group presentation.
CRITERIA VERY
SATISFACTORY
SATISFACTORY FAIR NEEDS
IMPROVEMENT
Relevance to the
objective of the
lesson
There is a very
smooth flow of
ideas and with
relevance to the
objective of the
lesson
Ideas are well
presented and suited
to the lesson
Ideas are quite
well presented
Some ideas are
missing
Presentation Makes eye
contacts, speaks
knowledgably and
with clear and
modulated voice
Some eye contact,
little need to
reference notes,
some involvement
with fellow pupils,
varies voice at times
No eye
contact,uses notes
frequently, very
lillte involvement
with fellow pupils,
rarely varies voice
Avoids looking at
audience, reads
notes, no
involvement
with fellow
pupils, speaks in
a monotone,
Completeness Very clear identified
all the group of
invertebrate
animals and their
characteristics
Clear identified
characteristics of
invertebrate animals
Quite clear
identified some of
the characteristics
of invertebrate
animals
Attempts to
identify

13. Is a Bat, a bird? Why?

14. Characteristics of the different group
of animals
Group Characteristics
Mammals
Warm-blooded animals or endotherns
Covered with hair
With mammary glands
Breath trough lungs
Most live on land
Others live in water
Birds
Warm-blooded or endotherms can generate bodyheat
internally
Body temperature stays the same
Only animals with feathers
Have two pairs of limbs Forelimbs used for flying
Hindlimbs for perching, walking.swimming or prey-catching
Lays eggs with shells
With bill or beak

15. Fishes
Cold-blooded animals or ectotherms
Breathes with gills takes water with its mouth
With tails and fins
Covered with scales
Lays eggs in water
With lateral line on both sides serves as sense organs that
feels vibration from boat, people and other animals
Reptiles
Cold-blooded or ectotherms
Terrestrial animals fully adapted to life on land
Have dry scaly skin, some have scale some have shells
Primarily breathe through their lungs for respiration
Use their legs /feet for locomotion
Some are born alive some are hatched from eggs
Amphibians
Cold-blooded
Spend part of their lives in water and part on land
Breathe through their gills when young lungs when they grow old
Have smooth, moist and scale less skins
Lays eggs in water and develops through metamorphosis

16. Matching type of animals and its
characteristics.
Column A Column B
1 Lizards A Primarily breathe through their lungs
for respiration
2 Bat B Breathe through lungs
Most live on land
Others live in water
3 Pigeon C With tails and fins
Covered with scales
4 newt D Body temperature stays the same
Only animals with feathers
5 Milkfish E Have smooth, moist and scale less
skins

17. Thanks for
Cooperating in our
Discussion. Hope
you learned a lot!