Plants & Animals - Grade 2 Science Worksheet 2 - Free Printable
Download this free printable Plants & Animals worksheet for Grade 2 Science. Perfect for practice, homework, and classroom use.
Grade 2 Science practice
This printable Plants & Animals worksheet is part of the free WizKidsHub Grade 2 Science collection. Print it at home or in the classroom for extra practice.
What this worksheet teaches
- Describe simple life cycles, for example seed to plant or egg to chick.
- Compare how different animals move, eat and protect themselves.
- Identify what a habitat is and match animals to the habitat that suits them.
- Recognise that plants and animals depend on each other, such as bees visiting flowers.
How to use this worksheet
Work through the sorting questions with a pencil first, not a pen. Grade 2 children commonly place bats with birds and whales with fish, and being able to erase and re-sort after you talk about fur and feeding young keeps the focus on the reasoning rather than on the mistake.
Sample questions from this worksheet
- What do leaves help plants do?
- Which plant is very tall?
Frequently asked questions
Do we need to grow a real plant to complete it?
No. Everything can be answered from the worksheet itself, though growing a bean in a jar alongside it makes the life-cycle questions noticeably easier to remember.
What comes after this topic?
Grade 3 usually moves from parts and groups to how living things depend on their surroundings - food chains, adaptation and habitats in more detail. Solid plant parts and animal groups now make that step much smoother.
My child put the bat with the birds. Is the worksheet too hard?
No - that mix-up is one of the most common in Grade 2, because flying looks like the deciding feature. Talk about fur and feeding milk to babies, then let your child re-sort. The mistake is a normal step, not a sign the sheet is too advanced.