Animals with Backbones covers these concepts: animals with backbones are called vertebrates, body characteristics and growth of vertebrates, hunting, gathering, and eating habits of vertebrates, vertebrate adaptation and self defense, and where vertebrates live. A variety of engaging activities present the concepts in ways that students can understand. Each concept presented includes: teacher directions for lessons and reproducible resource pages such as sets of picture cards, minibooks, and lab sheets to record the results of hands-on investigations.