Where Animals Live Matching

Kindergarten ScienceEarth Materials5 pages

About this worksheet

Students match four animals to four homes on the first page of this five-page kindergarten sheet, matched to NGSS K-ESS3-1. The fish, squirrel, worm, and deer go to a pond, a tree, the soil, and a forest. The second set matches a cow, a bird, and a frog to what each needs at home: grass to eat, a safe nest, or water to drink. The last task shows an ocean, and students cross out the one animal that does not live there. The answer key explains that the squirrel lives in trees.

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Curriculum objectives covered

K-ESS3-1

โ€œUse a model to represent the relationship between the needs of different plants or animals (including humans) and the places they live.โ€

Set 2 links each animal's need to its home, and Set 3 has students check a place against the animals shown in it.

What's inside this worksheet

Set 1: Animal to Home

Students join Fish to Pond, Squirrel to Tree, Worm to Soil, and Deer to Forest.

Set 2: Animal to Need

Three lines: the cow to grass to eat, the bird to a safe nest, and the frog to water to drink.

Set 3: Does NOT Live Here

An ocean scene with one animal that does not belong. Students cross out the squirrel.

How teachers use it

Habitat corners

Label four corners of the room Pond, Tree, Soil, and Forest. Call out an animal and let students walk to its home before Set 1.

Odd one out

Set 3 works as a quick whole-class game. Show the ocean picture on the board and ask who does not belong.

One more animal

After Set 1, ask students for one more animal for each home. A duck for the pond or an owl for the tree keeps the pattern going.

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