This matching animal habitats worksheet has 2nd Grade students connect five animals to the ocean, pond, desert, forest, and grassland, then finish three sentences. An answer key is included for fast, no-prep science practice.
This rainforest animals worksheet asks 2nd Grade students to circle four rainforest animals and finish sentences about their habitat. Answer key included, so habitat practice takes only minutes to assign and check.
This Forests Life Science Reading Comprehension Worksheet gives 2nd graders a short non-fiction passage about pine, leafy, and rain forests, plus questions and an answer key. Great no-prep practice for main idea and key details.
Explore swamps, bogs, and marshes with this wetlands life science reading comprehension worksheet. Second graders read a short nonfiction passage and answer six questions, and an answer key is included, so learning about habitats stays easy and fun.
This Lakes and Seas Life Science Reading Comprehension Worksheet gives 2nd Grade students an original passage about fresh water and salt water habitats, with bubble, fill-in, and writing questions. 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 Grasslands Life Science Reading Comprehension Worksheet gives 2nd Grade readers a nonfiction passage about savannas and prairies, seven text-based questions, and an answer key included for fast checking.
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 drawing animal needs worksheet helps 2nd grade students match sentences to food, water, shelter, and space, then draw and label a habitat. An answer key is included for quick checking.
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.
This house shape book activity helps K-2nd Grade children color, draw and write their own story about home, then cut out and staple the house pages into a book to share.
Using this Survivor Desert Edition Activity, students play the survivor board game to test your knowledge of animals and their habitats.
This Butterfly Garden Reading Comprehension Worksheet gives 2nd Grade readers a short nonfiction text about what butterflies need, five questions, and an answer key, so students practice finding evidence in what they read.
Using Things That Grow Activity, students play UNO to practice classifying things that grow into four categories.
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.
Using this Survivor Ocean Edition Activity, students play the survivor board game to test your knowledge of animals and their habitats.
Using this Survivor Rainforest Edition Activity, students play the survivor board game to test your knowledge of animals and their habitats.
Every animal needs a home sweet home!
In 2nd grade, kids learn that a habitat is a place where a plant or animal gets everything it needs: food, water, shelter and space. They explore different habitats like the desert, rainforest, ocean, grasslands, wetlands and Arctic tundra, and see how animals are built for where they live. A camel stores fat for long trips without food, and a polar bear has thick fur for the cold. The click comes when kids can look at an animal's body and guess where it lives.
Second graders love animals. These moves turn that into habitat learning.
Set up four labeled areas for desert, farm, rainforest and tundra. Kids pick an animal card and place it in the right habitat, explaining why. Ask follow-up questions like "What would happen if a polar bear lived in the desert?"
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 Habitats Desert, Farm, Rainforest, Arctic Tundra Sort ActivityActivitiesOpen it →Kids draw lines from animals to their habitats, then circle one body part that helps each animal survive there. Connecting features to habitats is the big idea.
Why it works: pairing a picture with each word gives kids two ways to remember it, a well-tested principle of how people learn (Mayer, 2009).
Try it withMatching Animal Habitats WorksheetWorksheetsOpen it →Kids read a short wetlands passage and answer a few questions. Then they tell a partner one animal that lives there and why. Reading and retelling helps the facts stick.
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 withWetlands Life Science Reading Comprehension WorksheetAssessmentsOpen it →Explore the world's habitats with these:
ActivitiesKids decide what they'd need to survive in the desert, just like the animals that live there.
Open Survivor Desert Edition Activity →
ActivitiesKids sort animals by whether they live on land or in water. Watch out for frogs!
Open Land or Water Activity →
WorksheetsKids meet rainforest animals and color the layer of the forest where each one lives.
Open Rainforest Animals Worksheet →Teacher favorites right now: Matching Animal Habitats Worksheet, Rainforest Animals Worksheet and Forests Life Science Reading Comprehension Worksheet.
A habitat is the natural home of a plant or animal. It gives the animal food, water, shelter and space to live.
A biome is a large region with a similar climate, like a desert or rainforest. A habitat is the specific home of an animal within that biome.
Common ones are deserts, rainforests, oceans, grasslands, forests, wetlands and the Arctic tundra.
Visit a zoo, aquarium or local park and talk about where each animal lives in the wild. Ask, "What does it eat? Where does it sleep?"
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