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Grade 5 Science · World 3: Living Library · Level 19
Reptiles and Birds
Tell these groups apart by skin or feathers, and eggs.
Warm-up, learn, try it together, practice, then a quick check. About 15 minutes.
What children learn in Level 19
- Reptiles, like snakes, lizards, turtles, and alligators, have dry scales and breathe with lungs. Most lay leathery eggs on land.
- Birds have feathers, beaks, and lungs, and they lay hard-shelled eggs.
- Feathers are the key. Bats have wings too, but only birds have feathers.
Georgia Standards of Excellence in Science:
- S5L1.a — Develop a model that illustrates how animals are sorted into groups (vertebrate and invertebrate) and how vertebrates are sorted into groups (fish, amphibian, reptile, bird, and mammal) using data from multiple sources.