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 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.
This animal riddles activity has students read clues and match each riddle to the right animal card. Made for 1st-2nd grade with self-check cards, a practice page and an answer key included.
This nutty nouns activity lets Kindergarten to 2nd grade students sort picture cards into person, place and thing, then practice with a word-box sort. Answer key included.
This living and nonliving activity gives kindergarten to 2nd grade students 12 picture cards and a sorting mat to classify things that are alive. A practice page and answer key are included.
This land or water activity is a K-2nd grade animal sorting card game with a spinner and sorting mat. Children classify animals by where they live, and an answer key is included.
Using this Survivor Desert Edition Activity, students play the survivor board game to test your knowledge of animals and their habitats.
Using Things That Grow Activity, students play UNO to practice classifying things that grow into four categories.
Try this life cycle three pack science life cycles activity with kindergarten to 2nd grade students. Kids sequence chicken, frog and butterfly picture cards; an answer key is included.
This animal habitats sort activity has kindergarten to 2nd Grade children sort animal cards into desert, farm, rainforest and arctic tundra homes. Spinner game and answer key included.
This frog and a log position words activity helps K-2nd Grade children match picture cards to on, under, above, next to, in front of and behind, with practice and an answer key included.
Using this Survivor Ocean Edition Activity, students play the survivor board game to test your knowledge of animals and their habitats.
Using this Farm Writing Activity, students practice their comparing, sequencing, and story writing skills while writing all about farm!
Using Research It Animals Activity, studentsparticipate in shared research and writing projects to learn about a specific topic.
Using this Survivor Rainforest Edition Activity, students play the survivor board game to test your knowledge of animals and their habitats.
Using this There Was An Old Lady Animal Names Activity, students practice reading animal words to build reading fluency and recognition.
This Dogs Easy Alphabetical Order Activity will teach your students how to put three sets of sight words in alphabetical order.
This dogs hard alphabetical order activity has 2nd and 3rd grade students sort dog word cards and order words that share a first letter. Answer key included.
Fur, feathers, scales and slime
Second graders learn to group animals like scientists. They sort them into mammals, birds, fish, reptiles, amphibians and insects by their features: fur or feathers, gills or lungs, laying eggs or having live babies. They explore habitats like the rainforest, ocean and desert, and how animals' bodies help them survive there. Life cycles of butterflies and frogs show how animals grow and change. The click moment is when a child argues that a whale is a mammal, not a fish, because it breathes air!
Second graders love animals. These moves turn that love into real science thinking.
Give groups a stack of animal pictures and a chart with the six animal groups. They sort and write one clue for each choice: "Has feathers, so it's a bird." Tricky ones like penguins and bats spark great debates.
Why it works: going from real objects to pictures to symbols is a core recommendation of the U.S. Department of Education's elementary math guide.
Try it withAnimal Classification WorksheetWorksheetsOpen it →Pick two animals, like a frog and a fish, and compare them on a Venn diagram. Both live in water; only one has lungs as an adult. Comparing forces kids to notice the details that define each group.
Why it works: children learn more from words and pictures together than from words alone (Mayer, 2009).
Try it withComparing Animals Venn Diagram WorksheetGraphic OrganizersOpen it →Play the Animal Song and pause after each animal to ask, "Which group is it in?" Kids hold up a group card. The song keeps it lively, and the pauses turn it into a quick review.
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 →Animal lessons are naturally fun. Lean in!
WorksheetsKids act out each stage of the butterfly life cycle: egg, caterpillar, chrysalis, butterfly.
Open Life Cycle of a Butterfly Worksheet →
WorksheetsMatch animals to their homes, then explain one body part that helps them live there.
Open Matching Animal Habitats Worksheet →
WorksheetsVote on favorite animals and turn the results into a bar graph. Science meets math!
Open Animals Bar Graph Worksheet →Teacher favorites right now: Frog Facts Activity, Animal Habitats Activity - Freshwater, Grasslands, Forest, Ocean and Animal Riddles Activity.
They classify animals into groups like mammals, birds, fish, reptiles, amphibians and insects, explore habitats, and learn the life cycles of animals like butterflies and frogs.
Mammals, birds, fish, reptiles, amphibians and insects. Each group has features in common, like fur for mammals or feathers for birds.
Start with features kids can see: fur, feathers, scales, wings. Sort pictures together, then talk about tricky animals that break the rules, like bats and whales.
Visit a zoo, aquarium or park, read animal books and watch nature shows together. Ask, "What group do you think it belongs to?"
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