The Mammal Song by Have Fun Teaching is perfect for teaching and learning all about mammals. This animated music video teaches that mammals breathe air with lungs, are warm-blooded, have fur or hair, give birth to live young and feed their babies milk. While watching the Mammal Song, students learn…
A 1st grade Mammals, Fish, or Birds Classifying Animals Worksheet where students sort a word bank of animals into three groups. Includes a complete answer key for quick, no-prep science practice.
This reptile classification worksheet helps 1st graders sort animals by circling reptiles, matching them to their names, and completing simple reptile facts. Includes a complete answer key for fast, no-prep life science practice.
Using this Animal Song (Animated Music Video), your students learn about different types of animals and their sounds by watching this fun, catchy video.
Students label nine friendly animal pictures using a nine-word bank in this animal names worksheet. Built for 1st Grade science, with an answer key included so checking work takes seconds.
Use this Importance of Farming Worksheet to help 1st Grade students sort six farm foods into plants and animals and decide what farms really give people. Answer key included for fast, no-prep science practice.
This Learning about Mammals Worksheet gives 1st graders a short informational passage and five fill-in-the-bubble questions about mammal traits. An answer key is included, so reading comprehension practice takes no prep at all.
This Snake Rebus Worksheet gives 1st graders a picture-supported story to read aloud, then four pictures to label with the matching word. Answer key included, so fluency practice takes almost no prep.
The Amphibian Song by Have Fun Teaching is perfect for teaching and learning all about amphibians. This animated music video teaches that amphibians live on land and in water, start life with gills, go through metamorphosis and have moist skin without scales. While watching the Amphibian Song, students learn the…
This Main Details Whales Worksheet pairs a short first grade whale passage with five main topic and key detail questions. An answer key is included, so comprehension practice needs no prep at all.
This animal riddles worksheet has first graders read three clues about an animal, choose its name from a word box, and then write their own clues about an owl. Answer key included for quick, no-prep science practice.
This Basic Fish Parts Worksheet asks 1st graders to label six numbered parts on a big, friendly fish using a word box. An answer key is included, so science practice takes no prep at all.
This fish writing paper worksheet gives 1st grade students wide lined paper and a fun fish prompt, so every child can write about a favorite fish and practice neat, complete sentences.
Writing about Animals Worksheet helps 1st graders pick an animal they love and write what it looks like, what it eats, and where it lives on clear, roomy lines that build confident sentence writing.
The Bird Song by Have Fun Teaching is perfect for teaching and learning all about birds. This animated music video teaches that birds have beaks but no teeth, walk on two feet, lay eggs, are warm-blooded, have backbones and are covered with feathers. While watching the Bird Song, students learn…
The Insect Song by Have Fun Teaching is perfect for teaching and learning all about insects. This animated music video teaches what makes an insect an insect: an exoskeleton, three body parts (head, thorax and abdomen), six legs and two antennae. While watching the Insect Song, students learn the traits…
These farm flash cards teach 18 farm animals, plants and things with a picture on the front and the word inside. Made for preschool to 1st grade, with a sorting practice page and answer key included.
The Fish Song by Have Fun Teaching is perfect for teaching and learning all about fish. This animated music video teaches that fish have fins and scales, swim in water, breathe with gills, have skeletons of cartilage or bone, and live in freshwater and saltwater. While watching the Fish Song,…
The Reptile Song by Have Fun Teaching is perfect for teaching and learning all about reptiles. This animated music video teaches that reptiles breathe with lungs, have claws and scales, lay eggs on land, use the sun for heat and are cold-blooded. While watching the Reptile Song, students learn the…
The Bottlenose Dolphin Reading Comprehension Worksheet gives 1st grade readers a short nonfiction ocean passage and five bubble-in questions. An answer key is included, so close-reading practice takes only minutes to set up.
Who has fur, scales or feathers?
First graders learn that animals come in groups with things in common. Mammals have fur or hair and feed their babies milk, birds have feathers, fish have gills and scales, and reptiles have dry, scaly skin. Kids learn what all animals need (food, water, air and shelter), where they live, and how their body parts help them survive, like a fish's fins for swimming. They also sort living and nonliving things. The click moment is a child explaining why a dog and a whale are both mammals.
First graders are natural animal experts. These moves turn their curiosity into science.
Give kids animal pictures and three bins: mammals, fish and birds. They sort and give one clue for each: "Feathers, so it's a bird!" Kids who can say the reason really understand the groups.
Why it works: the U.S. Department of Education's guide for teaching elementary math recommends moving from hands-on objects to drawings to numbers.
Try it withMammals, Fish, or Birds Classifying Animals WorksheetWorksheetsOpen it →Play the Mammal Song and have kids hold up a picture of a mammal each time a feature is mentioned: fur, milk, breathing air. Then add surprises like bats and whales.
Why it works: words set to a repeating melody are easier to recall than the same words spoken (Wallace, 1994).
Try it withMammal SongSongsOpen it →Show an ocean habitat scene and kids find and name each animal, then tell how its body helps it live there. Talking about body parts and homes together builds real understanding.
Why it works: children learn more from words and pictures together than from words alone (Mayer, 2009).
Try it withOcean Animal Habitat WorksheetWorksheetsOpen it →Animal fun that first graders never get tired of.
ActivitiesKids read animal riddles and guess the animal. Then they write a riddle of their own.
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ActivitiesLearn amazing frog facts and hop like a frog for each one you remember.
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ActivitiesSort pictures into living and nonliving. Is a robot alive? Is a tree? Great debates!
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They learn animal groups like mammals, birds, fish and reptiles, what animals need to live, where they live and how their body parts help them survive.
Food, water, air and shelter. Kids learn that different animals meet these needs in different ways.
Use pictures and real examples. Sort animals by features kids can see, like fur, feathers and scales, and talk about why each animal belongs in its group.
Visit a zoo or farm, watch animal videos, read nonfiction animal books and observe birds and bugs outside.
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