Animal Adaptations Worksheet – Elementary Science
- Grades
- Grades 1–3, Elementary
- File type
- Preparation
- Print ready
- Subject
- Science, Life Sciences, Animals
- Topic
- Animal Worksheet, Animal Adaptations
- Resource types
- Worksheets & Printables, Worksheets
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About this resource
What's inside this resource
Teaching science to our elementary students opens them up to a whole new world of interests, but with a whole new take! They get to learn about the weather and its changes. They get to learn about animals and their offspring. They get to learn about natural wonders, such as volcanoes! There are so many engaging things for students to learn during science.
What You Get:
This is an Adaptations Worksheet that is ideal for elementary students who have been introduced to animal adaptations.
How To Implement This Resource:
You can print off enough copies of this worksheet for each student to have. You may also choose to print only a few copies and laminate those. If you choose to laminate them, students can use dry erase markers to write answers. This is a great way to turn this into a science center or small group activity.
On the first page, students will fill in the missing words for each animal. There are 5 animals, and each animal has 2 sentences to complete. The animals are squirrel, camel, mole, frog, and bear.
The second page will have a word bank of the missing words. This will help students better determine what words they need to use. At the bottom of the page, they will draw their favorite animal and label it.
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Teaching tips & learning objectives
Learning objectives
Students identify how a specific physical feature helps an animal survive in its stated habitat.
Students use context clues within a sentence frame to select the correct word from a shared word bank.
Students draw and label an animal of their choice, naming one adaptation of their own.
Teaching tips
Review the five habitats (desert, arctic, pond, forest canopy, underground) before students start, since the word bank is not grouped by sentence.
Have students explain aloud why a chosen word fits before writing it in, since several word-bank terms could plausibly fit more than one blank without context.
Use the closing draw-and-label task as a quick check for whether students can name an adaptation independent of the sentence frames.
Skills covered
Context-clue reading — students use surrounding sentence text to choose the correct word from a fifteen-term shared bank.
Science vocabulary — students apply terms such as adaptation, habitat, tongue, and coat to five specific animals.
Written labeling — students draw and label a self-chosen animal's adaptation in their own words.
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Questions teachers ask about this resource
Why does the word bank list ‘bear’s’ instead of ‘bear’?
The third sentence frame needs the possessive form so the completed sentence reads ‘a polar bear’s thick coat,’ matching the word-bank entry.
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