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There is a book series from Raintree Perspective that discusses each classification. It picks one animal per book and examines it in detail to show the reason why it belongs to that class.
The author is Greg Pyers.

The titles are "Why am I an Insect?", "Why am I a Fish?", "Why am I a Mammal?" and so on through all 6 classes.

We checked this book out at the local library. Has good overview of types of animals. Shows some life cycles. Also has some outdoor experiments.

• link: https://www.amazon.com/Outdoor-Science-Animals/dp/1526309408

Classification of invertebrates and vertebrates. Then goes over the vertebrates. Works good with activity 2.

• link: https://youtu.be/mRidGna-V4E?feature=shared

Informative video

• link: https://youtu.be/3qmb2EiYRtU

Brain Pop Jr. has two lessons for this unit- one on classifying animals and one on mammals.

• link: https://jr.brainpop.com/science/animals/mammals/https://

There is a great series of about what it would be like as a kid to have different animal features like animal hair, animal teeth ect. There are quite a few books in the series.

• link: https://www.amazon.com/What-You-Had-Animal-Hair/dp/0545630851/ref=asc_df_05

We read "Is a Camel a Mammal" by Dr. Suess. It was a fun addition to this unit.

"Animal Classifications - Mammals" by Angela Royston
We got it from the library - it's easy to read with fun pictures.

• link: https://www.amazon.com/Mammals-Animal-Classifications-Angela-Royston/dp/148

My daughter's favorite source for info on animals. We watched a great video about crocodiles laying eggs.

• link: https://pbskids.org/wildkratts/

We found this song to be great for basic animal classification.

• link: https://youtu.be/PHYi4fqeEdw

Beautiful animal and plant cards, can be played as a game or sorted

• link: http://phylogame.org/cards

A good video that describes what a mammal is.

• link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGonwMTPV6g

https://youtu.be/hGonwMTPV6g

"Benny's Animals and how he put them in order" by Millicent Selsam

Simple text that fits nicely with the theme. I had my child read half on day one and half on day two, it's 60 pages long.

• link: https://www.amazon.com/Bennys-Animals-How-Them-Order/dp/0060252723/ref=sr_1

"Who's Like Me?" Although it is geared toward preschoolers, this (and the other books by the author in the series) has been a long time favorite for my child. It's a flip the flap book to get the child reader thinking about which attributes go with each classification. The illustrations are some of my favorites.

• link: https://www.amazon.com/Whos-Like-Flip-Flap-Find/dp/0763658022/ref=sr_1_6?s=

"Animal School: What Class Are You?"

• link: https://www.amazon.com/Animal-School-What-Class-Are/dp/0823430456/ref=sr_1_

A short video by World Book Encyclopedia regarding the differences between these two classes of animals.

• link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MGL3yTw0c4

We went to the zoo and had a scavenger hunt. We had to find animals in each of the classifications we learned about (amphibians, reptiles, warm-blooded,etc.) We also also had to find animals from differnt habitats and at different endangered levels.