This fun game teaches kids the basics of animal classification and encourages deductive reasoning. It's also a great time-filler. You can use it with the few minutes before lunch, after students have packed up, or whenever!

How to Play

Say, “I’m thinking of an animal. You can ask twenty yes/no questions to discover it.”
Students raise their hands to ask questions.
If someone names the animal before twenty questions are asked, they win. If not, you win.
To continue play, the winner thinks of a new animal.

A one-page reference guide on types of animals is included.

Enjoy teaching!

Brenda Kovich

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2 pages

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N/A

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Other

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Standards

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NGSS4-LS1-1

Construct an argument that plants and animals have internal and external structures that function to support survival, growth, behavior, and reproduction. Examples of structures could include thorns, stems, roots, colored petals, heart, stomach, lung, brain, and skin. Assessment is limited to macroscopic structures within plant and animal systems.

NGSS3-LS1-1

Develop models to describe that organisms have unique and diverse life cycles but all have in common birth, growth, reproduction, and death. Changes organisms go through during their life form a pattern. Assessment of plant life cycles is limited to those of flowering plants. Assessment does not include details of human reproduction.

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