Plants & Animals - Grade 1 Science Worksheet 8 - Free Printable

Download this free printable Plants & Animals worksheet for Grade 1 Science. Perfect for practice, homework, and classroom use.

Grade 1 Science practice

This printable Plants & Animals worksheet is part of the free WizKidsHub Grade 1 Science collection. Print it at home or in the classroom for extra practice.

What this worksheet teaches

• Match common animals to where they live: water, land, trees or underground.
• Describe what plants need to grow: water, sunlight, air and soil.
• Recognise that baby animals often look different from their parents and match a few common pairs.
• Group animals by an obvious feature such as feathers, fur, scales or number of legs.

How to use this worksheet

After the sheet, go on a two-minute hunt: find one plant, one animal and one thing that is not living at all. Grade 1 children often think anything that moves is alive, so pointing at a car or a fan and saying 'moves, but not living' clears up the most common misunderstanding in this whole topic.

Sample questions from this worksheet

1. Which animal sleeps during winter?
2. Which animal lives in a burrow?

Frequently asked questions

My child thinks anything that moves is alive. Is that normal?

Very normal at Grade 1. Cars, fans and clouds all move, so movement feels like the rule. Point out that living things grow, need food or water, and make young ones - a toy car does none of those.

Does my child need to know animal names in English before starting?

The pictures and the common animal names in this worksheet are chosen to be familiar ones - cat, cow, fish, bird. If a name is new, say it aloud once and let your child repeat it; the worksheet then doubles as vocabulary practice.

Why does the worksheet keep asking about roots?

Roots are the part children cannot see, so they get left out of drawings and labels. Repeated practice with roots, plus one look at a real plant out of its pot, fixes it quickly.