Lakes Worksheet
This lakes worksheet helps 3rd grade students match eight lake vocabulary words to their meanings, then draw and describe two of them. An answer key is included for quick, easy checking.
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Description
Lakes hold much of the fresh water that plants, animals and people depend on, and this lakes worksheet helps students learn the words scientists use to describe them. Third graders meet lake vocabulary when they study land and water, habitats, and the water cycle. When students can name the parts of a lake and explain where its water comes from and goes, science passages and maps become much easier to understand.
This 3rd grade environments worksheet has two parts. In Part A, students read eight lake words, such as shore, basin, inlet, outlet, sediment and reservoir, and draw a line from each word to the meaning that matches it. In Part B, they choose two lake words, write each one on a line, draw a picture of it in its own space, and finish a sentence that describes how it looks. Use it during an environments or habitats unit, as a vocabulary review before a quiz, or as a quiet independent science activity.
What’s Included
- 1 print-ready PDF worksheet
- Answer key
- 8 lake vocabulary words to match with their meanings
- 2 draw-and-describe boxes with sentence starters
Here are three reasons this lakes worksheet works well for kids. First, every meaning uses simple, concrete words, so students focus on the science idea instead of getting stuck on hard language. Second, the matches are mixed up, so students must read each meaning carefully rather than guess from the order. Third, drawing a lake word and describing it asks students to show what they understand in their own way, which helps the new vocabulary stick.
Teachers and parents can extend the lesson by finding a lake near your town on a map and tracing the streams that flow into it and out of it. Students could build a small lake model in a pan with sand and water to see how sediment settles to the bottom, or compare a natural lake with a reservoir made by a dam. Watch the water cycle song below to talk about how rain and snow keep a lake filled.
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