Grade 3 · Science · Unit 1 of 6
Grouping Living Things
Sort living things into groups
What your child practises
Biodiversity (the variety of life in a place) and sorting living things into groups by their features: backbones, legs, fur, feathers, fins and more.
BC Curriculum learning standard: Biodiversity in the local environment; living things can be grouped by their features
Sample questions
A taste of this unit. In the app, questions change every time and get easier or harder to match your child.
Question 1
Which feature do all birds have?
🐦- 🐻fur
- 🐟gills
- 🪶feathers
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🪶 feathers
Hint: Every bird has feathers, even birds that can't fly, like penguins.
Question 2
Mammal, bird or fish? Tap an item, then tap its basket.
Sort into: 🐻 mammal · 🐦 bird · 🐟 fish
- 🦆duck
- 🐠clownfish
- 🦅eagle
- 🐇rabbit
- 🐡pufferfish
- 🦫beaver
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🐻 mammal: rabbit, beaver · 🐦 bird: duck, eagle · 🐟 fish: clownfish, pufferfish
Hint: Mammals have fur or hair. Birds have feathers. Fish have fins and breathe with gills.
Question 3
Mammals, birds, fish, reptiles and amphibians all have a…
🦴- pair of wings
- set of gills
- hard shell
- backbone
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backbone
Hint: These five groups are all animals with a backbone.
Question 4
Which living thing is a plant?
- 🪲beetle
- 🌿fern
- 🍄mushroom
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🌿 fern
Hint: Plants have leaves and make their own food from sunlight. A mushroom is a fungus, not a plant.
Question 5
Which group has 3 body parts and 6 legs?
🐝- fish
- insects
- spiders
- worms
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insects
Hint: Insects have a head, a middle part and an abdomen, plus 6 legs.
Question 6
Where would you look to find worms, beetles and slugs?
🪵- inside a closed glass jar
- under a damp log
- on a hot, dry sidewalk
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under a damp log
Hint: Many small animals like cool, damp, dark places where they can find food and hide.