1. Discuss with students the process of separating animals into groups or categories so that they are more easily studied and discussed. Explain that the following activity will help students learn more about animals. Let students group the animals with their own system first.
2. Divide students into groups of three to five. Give each group magazines with a lot of animal pictures in them. Students in each group will look through magazines and cut out any animal pictures that they find. Students will place in a pile. After all pictures have been placed into a pile, each group will divide their pile of pictures into five - seven smaller categories.
3. After each group is done, bring the entire class together again and have one person from each group tell why they grouped their pictures as they did. (Examples being color, size, shape, extinct or not, eating habits, living habits, etc.)
4. Show students films and videos on the actual animal categories that scientists have divided animals into. Discuss these groups and why it is helpful to have animals broken down into smaller groups. Students may bring in pets that fit various categories and discuss them.

this is a monkey and it is the best animal i like . the monkey is very funny , it can climb tree and eat bananas . it is can jump very well . it also can swim . i can see the monkey ride a bike in a park . it is so wonderful . i like it very much