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The Animal Kingdom
PawSteps · Unit Study + Seek & Find Puzzles · Ages 5–9
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✔ 12 pages, A4 print-ready
✔ Meet the 5 animal groups — mammals, birds, reptiles & amphibians, fish, insects
✔ Questions and activities on EVERY page
✔ 2 giant Seek & Find puzzle scenes — jungle 🌴 and ocean 🌊
✔ Sorting challenge · food chain builder · Big Quiz
✔ Full answer key + certificate of completion
© PawSteps · For personal & classroom use — not for resale or sharing.
👑PawSteps · Page 1
Welcome to the Animal Kingdom!
🦉Professor Owl explains: Scientists sort animals into groups based on what their bodies are like — it makes millions of animals much easier to study! Meet the five groups you'll explore in this book:
🦁Mammals
Fur or hair · feed babies milk · warm-blooded
🦅Birds
Feathers · beaks · lay eggs · most can fly
🐍Reptiles & Amphibians
Scaly skin (reptiles) · start life in water (amphibians)
🐠Fish
Live in water · breathe with gills · fins & scales
🐝Insects
6 legs · 3 body parts · many have wings
❓You decide!
Draw your favourite animal here — which group is it in?
✏️ Quick check: which group has feathers? Which group has 6 legs?
🦁PawSteps · Group Study 1
Marvellous Mammals
🐘Read me first! Mammals have fur or hair, are warm-blooded, and mums feed their babies milk. Mammals live almost everywhere — even in the sea! Whales and dolphins are mammals, not fish: they swim up to the surface to breathe air. YOU are a mammal too!
✏️ Answer the questions.
1. Name TWO things that make an animal a mammal.
2. Why do whales swim up to the surface?
3. Are YOU a mammal? How do you know?
⭕ Circle the mammals only!
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✅ True or false?
A dolphin is a fish.TRUEFALSE
Mammal mums feed their babies milk.TRUEFALSE
🦅PawSteps · Group Study 2
Brilliant Birds
🦜Read me first! Birds are the only animals with feathers. They have beaks instead of teeth and lay eggs in nests. Most birds fly, but not all — penguins "fly" underwater, and ostriches RUN faster than you can cycle!
✏️ Answer the questions.
1. What do birds have that no other animal has?
2. Name a bird that cannot fly.
3. What do birds have instead of teeth?
🔧 Beak detective! A beak is a tool. Match the beak to the job — draw lines.
🦅 Sharp hooked beak • • sipping nectar from flowers
🦆 Wide flat beak • • tearing meat
🐦 Tiny thin beak • • scooping water plants
🎨 Design a bird's nest! What would you build it from? Draw and label it.
🐍PawSteps · Group Study 3
Reptiles & Amphibians
🐊Read me first! Reptiles (snakes, lizards, crocodiles, turtles) have dry, scaly skin and love warming up in the sun. Amphibians (frogs, toads, newts) have smooth, damp skin and start life in the water as babies — remember the tadpole?
✏️ Reptile or amphibian? Write R or A next to each animal.
🐍 Snake ___ 🐸 Frog ___ 🐊 Crocodile ___ 🦎 Lizard ___ 🐢 Turtle ___ 🦎(newt!) Newt ___
✏️ Answer the questions.
1. How does reptile skin feel different from amphibian skin?
2. Where do baby amphibians start their lives?
3. Why do lizards lie in the sun?
⭐ Challenge: a turtle and a frog both love water. Which one is the amphibian — and how do you know?
🐠PawSteps · Group Study 4
Fish & Insects
🐟Fish spend their whole lives in water, breathing through gills and swimming with fins.
🐞Insects are the biggest group of all! Every insect has 6 legs and 3 body parts (head, thorax, abdomen). Spiders have 8 legs — so they are NOT insects!
🔢 Insect maths! Count the legs.
1 ant has 6 legs. How many legs do 3 ants have?
A spider has 8 legs. An ant has 6. How many MORE legs does the spider have?
⭕ Circle the true insects. Watch out for the impostor!
🐝 🕷️ 🐞 🦋 🐜 🦂
✏️ Answer the questions.
1. How many legs does every insect have?
2. Why isn't a spider an insect?
🌴PawSteps · Puzzle 1
Jungle Seek & Find!
🔍 The jungle is busy today! Count each animal and write the number in its box. Then answer the detective questions below. 🕵️
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🐒
🐍
🐸
🦋
🐆
🦥sneaky sloth!
🕵️ Detective questions: Which animal appears the MOST? _____________ Which group do the 🦋 and 🐜 belong to? _____________ Which animal here is a REPTILE? _____________
🌊PawSteps · Puzzle 2
Ocean Seek & Find!
🔍 Dive in! Count each sea creature and write the number in its box. Then try the detective questions. 🤿
🕵️ Detective questions: How many 🐠 and 🦀 altogether? _______ Which animal here is a MAMMAL, not a fish? _____________ Which has 8 arms? _____________
🗂️PawSteps · Page 8
The Great Sorting Challenge
✏️ You're the scientist now! Sort these 12 animals into their groups (write or draw): 🐕 dog · 🦅 eagle · 🐍 snake · 🐠 fish · 🐝 bee · 🐸 frog · 🐬 dolphin · 🐧 penguin · 🦎 lizard · 🦋 butterfly · 🐳 whale · 🦆 duck
⭐ Trap check: did the dolphin 🐬 and whale 🐳 end up with the mammals? Double-check — they breathe air!
🔗PawSteps · Page 9
Build a Food Chain
☀️How it works: Energy travels along a food chain. The sun helps plants grow → a plant-eater munches the plants → a meat-eater hunts the plant-eater. The arrow means "gets eaten by"!
✏️ Finish this food chain — write the missing name.
☀️Sun
➜
🌿Grass
➜
🐰Rabbit
➜
❓__________
✏️ Now build your OWN food chain — draw and label each link!
🤔 Think: what would happen to the fox if all the rabbits moved away? Why?
🏆PawSteps · Page 10
The Animal Kingdom Big Quiz!
🧠 Circle the correct answers — everything is in your study pages!
1. Which animals are the only ones with feathers?
mammalsbirdsinsects
2. A dolphin is a…
fishmammalreptile
3. Every insect has…
6 legs8 legs4 legs
4. Amphibians start their lives…
in the waterin a nestunderground
5. Reptile skin is…
smooth and dampdry and scalyfluffy
6. In a food chain, the arrow means…
"is friends with""gets eaten by""runs away from"
7. Fish breathe using…
lungsgillsfins
8. A spider is not an insect because it has…
8 legsno wingstoo many eyes
My score: ______ / 8 🌟 6–8 = Animal Kingdom Expert! · 4–5 = So close! · 0–3 = Explore the pages again — every expert re-reads!
✅PawSteps · Teacher Page
Answer Key
The Five Groups
Feathers: birds · 6 legs: insects
Mammals
1. fur/hair, warm-blooded, feed babies milk (any two) · 2. to breathe air · 3. yes — hair, warm-blooded, drank milk as a baby · Circle: dog, dolphin, giraffe, mouse · T/F: FALSE, TRUE
Birds
1. feathers · 2. penguin or ostrich · 3. beaks · Beaks: hooked→tearing meat, flat→scooping water plants, thin→sipping nectar
Reptiles & Amphibians
Snake R · Frog A · Crocodile R · Lizard R · Turtle R · Newt A · 1. reptile = dry & scaly, amphibian = smooth & damp · 2. in the water · 3. to warm their bodies · Challenge: the frog — smooth damp skin, starts as a tadpole
Fish & Insects
Maths: 18 legs · 2 more legs · Insects: bee, ladybird, butterfly, ant (NOT spider or scorpion — 8 legs!) · 1. six · 2. it has 8 legs
Jungle Seek & Find
🦜 5 · 🐒 4 · 🐍 3 · 🐸 6 · 🦋 7 · 🐆 2 · 🦥 1 · Most: butterfly · Group: insects · Reptile: snake
Ocean Seek & Find
🐠 8 · 🦀 4 · 🐙 3 · 🐬 2 · ⭐ 5 · 🦈 1 · Together: 12 · Mammal: dolphin · 8 arms: octopus
Sorting Challenge
Mammals: dog, dolphin, whale · Birds: eagle, penguin, duck · Rept/Amph: snake, frog, lizard · Fish: fish · Insects: bee, butterfly
Food Chain
Missing link: fox (or any rabbit-hunter) · Fox question: it would go hungry / move away — its food is gone
Big Quiz
1. birds · 2. mammal · 3. 6 legs · 4. in the water · 5. dry and scaly · 6. "gets eaten by" · 7. gills · 8. 8 legs
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Animal Kingdom Expert
This certifies that
has studied mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, fish and insects,
solved both Seek & Find puzzles, and earned the title of
PawSteps Kingdom Expert! 👑