I’ve enjoyed publishing posts with introductory biology activities for preschoolers and early elementary-age children.
I published a roundup of living and non-living activities.
I have a sorting activity with plants and animals.
In my roundup post of land, air, and water sorting, you’ll find some activities for sorting land, air, and water animals.
I also have posts on animal life cycles and animals of each continent.
Today, I’ll share some resources for helping children understand the differences between vertebrates and invertebrates and classes of vertebrates.
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Montessori Vertebrate and Invertebrate Sorting
Montessori Compass and Montessori Foundation have a free online Montessori scope and sequence which includes vertebrates and invertebrates and classification of vertebrates.
Montessori at Home has a zoology and taxonomy post that includes vertebrates and invertebrates and classes of vertebrates.
Homemade Montessori has free vertebrate and invertebrate cards.
Montessori for Learning has free vertebrate and invertebrate sorting cards.
Montessori Print Shop has vertebrate and invertebrate sorting available inexpensively with 12 vertebrates and 12 invertebrates.
Montessori for Everyone has vertebrate and invertebrate sorting available for purchase.
Montessori Services has vertebrate/invertebrate classification cards that are already printed and laminated or unlaminated.
Loving2Learn has a free vertebrates chart.
Vertebrate and Invertebrate Sorting (Photo from Montessori MOMents)
Montessori MOMents had a lesson on vertebrates and invertebrates. (The blog is no longer available.)
Vertebrate and Invertebrate Sorting (Photo from The Homeschool Den)
The Homeschool Den has lessons on vertebrate and invertebrate.
Sorting Vertebrates and Invertebrates Activity (Photo by Julie at Nurturing Learning)
Nurturing Learning has a lesson on vertebrates and invertebrates. (The blog post is no longer available.)
Carrots Are Orange has a lesson on vertebrates and invertebrates.
Montessori Album has a free online lesson for vertebrate/invertebrate sorting.
Moteaco has a free online album with animal classification for 6-9.
Montessori Classes of Vertebrates
It’s easiest for children to understand the classes of vertebrates before invertebrates. Here are a number of resources for the five classes of vertebrates.
Montessori for Everyone has free introductory animal research cards.
Classes of Vertebrates Cards from Montessori Print Shop
Montessori Print Shop has inexpensive vertebrate quiz cards and more animal classification cards in the science area.
The Pinay Homeschooler has a lesson on the animal kingdom with materials available for purchase.
Animal Life Cycles from The Pinay Homeschooler
The Pinay Homeschooler has free life cycle cards for each class of vertebrates plus vertebrate cards available for purchase.
Montessori for Everyone has characteristics of vertebrates cards available for purchase.
Montessori for Everyone has plant and animal sorting cards with 12 plant cards and 12 animal cards available for purchase.
Montessori Services has a number of vertebrate materials available for purchase that are already printed and often laminated.
Montessori Album has a free online lesson for 5 classes of vertebrate sorting.
The Homeschool Den has free forest animal sort cards with classes of vertebrates.
The Homeschool Den has a lesson on classifying animals.
I’d love to hear about your animal classification activities! 🙂
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We’re going to be doing a lot of science this summer ….. this is a great way to get started!
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A great resource for teachers! Thanks for sharing at After School!
Great list of resources to learn about vertebrates and invertebrates. This is my first visit here and it looks useful.
Thanks,
Shyam
Thanks for sharing all these ideas. We just did a unit on animal classification (see all the activities on my blog at GoodDaysWithKids.com), but we didn\’t do vertebrate / invertebrate. Maybe next time. 🙂
hello,
I just finished my Montessori Directress course n now got the call for Demonstration on Animal Kingdom. I am bit confuse as it will be my First Demo . I will appreciate if some one help me out.