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Plants & Animals Sorting with Venn Diagrams

Students sort feature words into a plants-and-animals Venn diagram, using the overlap for shared features and leaving an unrelated word outside.
Grades
Grades 1–4
Pages
2
File type
PDF
Answer key
Included

Updated Sep 27, 2026

Subject
Science, Life Sciences
Topic
Plants and animals, Venn diagram
Resource types
Worksheets
Answer key
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From the author

Students sort seventeen word-bank terms into a plant-and-animal Venn diagram, including an option that belongs outside both circles. A completed page is supplied for checking.

The two-page PDF is printable and is not editable. Discuss particular plant and animal examples as students explain their placements.

In the classroom

Teaching tips & learning objectives

Learning objectives

  • Sort features into what belongs to plants only, to animals only, and to both

  • Identify a word that fits neither category and place it outside the diagram rather than forcing it into a circle

  • Read a two-circle Venn diagram, understanding that the overlap means both labels apply at once

Teaching tips

  • Model the meaning of the overlap before students sort.
  • Ask students to explain placements rather than using category counts as the main check.
  • Discuss examples of animals with different body features.

Skills covered

  • Sorting by attribute - seventeen feature words are assigned to plants, to animals, or to both, using a printed word bank.

  • Reading a Venn diagram - the overlap holds six words that apply to plants and animals at once, which is the diagram's whole point.

  • Recognising the characteristics of living things - breathe, grow, drink, move, alive and die are the shared terms students place in the middle.

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Concepts & topics

Core concepts

  • Venn diagram

  • Sorting

  • Plants and animals

  • Living things

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