Animal explorer interactive (7-11)
An innovative, fun and engaging interactive with images, facts and quizzes about the variety of life in our animal kingdom.
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The fun and engaging primary animal explorer interactive teaches pupils about the variety of life in our animal kingdom, the characteristics of living things, diet, predator-prey relationships and their habitats. Featuring fact-files for 100 animals and quizzes to check learning, it gives pupils a tool to identify, name and group vertebrates and invertebrates. Use the sorting cards for activities away from the computer.
Develop pupils research skills as they make their own fact-file about an animal of their choice.
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Choose an animal and create your own animal fact file with this activity sheet.
Animal explorer fact-file sorting cards
Identify, group and classify animals with these sorting cards.
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Inspire your students to understand and learn all about different types of animals.
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