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…
This animal words matching worksheet has Kindergarten students match four animal names to their pictures, then trace three more. Answer key included for fast, no-prep science and sight-word 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.
This Fish Parts Worksheet has kindergarten students label the eye, fin, mouth, and tail on a big numbered fish using a word box. An answer key is included for fast, easy checking.
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 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.
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 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…
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,…
Insect flash cards for kindergarten to 4th grade with 24 lifelike bug pictures, names and fun facts, plus a practice page and answer key included, to grow science vocabulary.
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…
Using this Animal Song (MP3), your students learn about different types of animals and their sounds in a catchy and fun way.
Using these Land Animal Flash Cards, students improve their Insect vocabulary by having a complete set of animal names they can use in their writing and discussions.
This frog facts activity has children sort 12 fact cards onto TRUE and FALSE lily pads. Made for Kindergarten to 3rd Grade, with a practice page and answer key included.
This Drawing Farm Animals Worksheet has Kindergarten students name a sheep, a cow, and a pig from a word box, then draw a farm animal of their own. Answer key included, so checking takes seconds.
This fish parts activity has kindergarten and 1st grade children catch picture cards and label the eye, mouth, gills, fin, scales and tail, with an answer key included for quick checking.
This animal habitats activity has kindergarten to 2nd grade students sort 16 animal cards onto freshwater, grassland, forest and ocean mats. A practice page and an answer key are included.
With this farm animals examples worksheet, kindergarten kids circle the one farm animal in each row of pictures. A fun animal sorting page for young scientists, with an answer key.
This Drawing Ocean Animals Worksheet asks Kindergarten learners to circle the animals that live in the sea, then draw one of their own. An answer key is included, so sorting practice takes no prep at all.
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Kindergartners learn that animals are living things with needs, just like us: food · water · air · shelter. They notice how animals move, what they eat and where they live, from farms to oceans to forests. They sort living and nonliving things, learn simple groups like fish, birds and insects and spot body parts like fins, wings and legs. The click moment is when a child explains that a bird builds a nest because it needs a safe home, just like their family does.
Kindergartners are animal-crazy. These moves turn that love into real science thinking.
Play the Animal Song and have kids act out each animal as it's sung. Then ask, "How does that animal move? Why?" Movement and music make the facts unforgettable.
Why it works: a catchy, repeating tune gives the brain a hook to hang words on, so sung text is remembered better (Wallace, 1994).
Try it withAnimal Song (Animated Music Video)SongsOpen it →Gather toys, rocks, plants and animal pictures. Kids sort them into living and nonliving and explain one clue, like "It eats" or "It grows." This is the foundation for all life science.
Why it works: kids understand an idea best when they touch it, then draw it, then write it, the order the U.S. Department of Education recommends for elementary math.
Try it withLiving and Nonliving ActivityActivitiesOpen it →Flash land animal cards and kids shout the name and one fact. Mix in sounds and movements for extra fun. Quick rounds grow vocabulary fast.
Why it works: researchers who compared ten study methods found practice testing is one of the two that work best (Dunlosky and colleagues, 2013).
Try it withLand Animal Flash CardsFlash CardsOpen it →Animal games are the easiest wins in kindergarten.
ActivitiesRead an animal riddle and kids guess the animal. Then they make up riddles of their own.
Open Animal Riddles Activity →
ActivitiesSort animal pictures into farm and zoo and talk about why each animal lives there.
Open Farm or Zoo Matching Activity →
ActivitiesHop like frogs while learning fun facts about how frogs eat, live and grow.
Open Frog Facts Activity →Teacher favorites right now: Mammal Song, Animal Words Matching Worksheet and Animal Song (Animated Music Video).
Kindergartners learn what animals need to live, where they live, how they move and what they eat. They also sort living and nonliving things and name simple animal groups.
Animals need food, water, air and shelter to survive. Kindergartners compare these needs to their own.
Use songs, pictures, real observations and lots of sorting games. Visit a farm, zoo or backyard to see animals in action.
Go on a backyard bug hunt, watch birds at a feeder or visit a pet store. Ask your child what each animal needs and where it lives.
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