Plant and Animal Comparison Worksheets for Grade 1
Practice comparing plants and animals with these fun Plant and Animal Comparison Worksheets for Grade 1. Students identify similarities and differences in how plants and animals grow, get food, move, breathe, and live.
Children will compare how plants and animals grow, get food, breathe, move, and respond to their surroundings. Simple questions, matching activities, sorting exercises, and comparison tasks make these worksheets appropriate for Grade 1 science practice at school or at home.
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These plant and animal worksheets are designed with activities that help children understand that both plants and animals are living things, even though they have many different characteristics.






What’s included in the worksheets:
- Children look at pictures or words and decide whether each example is a plant or an animal.
- Students identify characteristics that plants and animals have in common and characteristics that are different.
- Students complete simple statements about what plants and animals have in common and how they are different.
- Children match pictures of plants and animals with their correct names or characteristics.
- Students use a word bank to complete simple science sentences.
- Students compare basic characteristics between plants and animals.
After completing these worksheets, students should be able to:
- Identify plants and animals as living things.
- Identify basic characteristics of plants.
- Identify basic characteristics of animals.
- Identify similarities between plants and animals.
- Identify differences between plants and animals.
- Understand that plants and animals need water and air.
- Recognize that plants and animals grow and change.
- Use basic science vocabulary related to living things.




