The second grade class began their ‘animal index’ card project during their last lesson. These are the instructions they were given:

Go to kidsplanet.org
Click on “Get the facts”
Research your animal and answer the questions on your index card
In the information box, tell where your animal can be found, and give 2 other interesting facts about your animal.

Things to remember:

1. Mammals-a class of animals that have backbones, are warm-blooded, breath air, and whose females have milk-secreting glands for feeding their young.
2. Reptiles- are air-breathing, cold-blooded vertebrates that have skin covered in scales as opposed to hair or feathers.
3. Birds-warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings
4. Amphibians- are vertebrates whose young live in water but the adults live on land
5. Fish- are aquatic vertebrates that are typically cold-blooded, covered with scales, and equipped with two sets of paired fins and several unpaired fins
6. Insects- are a major group of arthropods and the most diverse group of animals on the Earth

They are typing the information into a template I already made up in Microsoft Publisher – example below.