Plants & Animals - Grade 2 Science Worksheet 6 - 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

• Explain the job of each plant part, including how roots take in water and leaves make food.
• Sort animals into groups such as birds, fish, insects and mammals using visible features.
• Describe simple life cycles, for example seed to plant or egg to chick.
• Compare how different animals move, eat and protect themselves.

How to use this worksheet

Grade 2 is where children move from naming to explaining, so after each answer ask 'why?' once. If your child writes that roots take in water, ask what would happen without them. The spoken answer usually shows more understanding than the written one and tells you whether to re-read the section.

Sample questions from this worksheet

1. Which animal swims and has fins?
2. Which animal gives wool?

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.