🦋 The Animal Sorters Study Center

How Every Animal Gets Its Name

Millions of animals, one clever system. Learn how scientists sort every creature on Earth into groups inside groups, from the whole animal kingdom down to a single kind, and discover the ancient Greek names hiding in their labels.

🪜 Sorting made simple 🏛️ Greek name mysteries

The lessons

🦋 Lesson 1: The Great Animal Sort Backbones, animal classes, mammals in disguise, and the Greek-myth names behind real creatures. Four sorting games and a "Ladder of Life." 🔎 Lesson 2: The Name Detective Crack the Greek and Latin roots hidden in animal names, then meet the flowers and creatures named after Greek myths. Four detective cases. 🐾 Lesson 3: Meet the Mammal Families Get to know eight mammal families and their superpowers, from egg-laying platypuses to gnawing rodents, plus a few surprising family secrets. Four games.

For grown-ups & teachers

These lessons cover life-science classification for roughly grades 2 to 6: how living things are organized, what makes a mammal, and how scientific names draw on Greek and Latin. Everything runs right in the page, with no accounts, no sign-ups, and nothing kids do saved or sent anywhere.

Each lesson comes with a printable teacher lesson plan that includes objectives, a lesson flow, differentiation, an answer key, and aligned standards (NGSS and Common Core ELA):

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