Animal Diets Fact File

Year 3 ScienceAnimals Including Humans3 pages

About this worksheet

The red fox is the focus of this three-page Year 3 fact file on animal diets. Pupils draw the fox or what it eats, then fill six boxes: diet type, main foods, where it finds food, body features for feeding, why it needs nutrition, and seasonal changes. A Did You Know? box asks for one surprising fact about how foxes hunt or eat. To finish, pupils write 2 to 3 sentences on why a fox cannot make its own food like a plant. The answer key gives model answers, starting with omnivore. It follows the England National Curriculum for animals, including humans.

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Curriculum objectives covered

Animals, including humans

โ€œIdentify that animals, including humans, need the right types and amount of nutrition, and that they cannot make their own food; they get nutrition from what they eatโ€

The Why it needs nutrition box and the summary ask pupils to explain that a fox cannot make its own food. Main foods covers the types of food it eats. Amounts of food are not covered.

What's inside this worksheet

Animal Diets: The Red Fox

A picture of a red fox in a meadow, and a box headed Fox Sketch or Photo where pupils draw it in its habitat.

Key Dietary Facts

Six prompts, each with a hint such as "Carnivore, herbivore, or omnivore?" and "How its food changes in winter". A Did You Know? box follows.

Summary: Nutrition and Survival

2 to 3 sentences on why a fox cannot make its own food and how a mixed diet keeps it healthy.

How teachers use it

Research pairs

Give each pair a fox page from a library book or a wildlife site. The six boxes need a source to fill.

Plant contrast

Before the summary, recap how a plant makes its food from sunlight, so pupils can write the difference in their own words.

Second animal

After the fox, edit the title and hand out a copy for a hedgehog or a badger, with the same six boxes.

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