This document provides instructions for an activity where students will classify animals into groups based on observable features. The activity involves students sorting plastic animals from two bags into groups based on characteristics like appearance, habitat, and behavior. The document defines key terms like classification, species, vertebrates and invertebrates. It explains that animals can be classified in multiple ways, such as by color, size, or as mammals. Students are asked to observe the animals, list features, determine the number of different types, and sort them into two initial groups. They then add animals from a second bag to the appropriate groups, explaining their reasoning. Finally, students are asked to consider if living things can be grouped in more ways than one and if

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8. Binary Classification is organizing things into two groups. Look at the two groups you made on the previous slide. Open Bag #2. Take the items and place them in the group you think they belong.