What Animal Body Parts Do

Start with something students can look at or think about: a photo, a short video, a jar on the windowsill, or a question like "what do you already know about legs and wings?" Then let them work through the worksheet on their own or with a partner, keeping a word bank or anchor chart in view so the vocabulary stays available. When you review, ask students how they knew, and let them point to the part of the diagram or reading that told them. These legs and wings worksheets work well as a lead in before an investigation, as a way to capture what students noticed afterward, or as review before an assessment.

These legs and wings worksheets for Kindergarten give students a clear, visual way to work through one of the big ideas in plants and animals. Students label diagrams, sort and classify examples, read short explanations, and answer questions that ask them to say why, not just what. Each page keeps the science vocabulary front and center so students leave with the words they need to talk about legs and wings accurately. Working through legs and wings on paper gives Kindergarten students something concrete to hold onto before, during, or after the hands on part of a lesson.

"What Animal Body Parts Do" is written for Kindergarten (Ages 3-6), and it covers NGSS K-LS1-1. If your little one is a year younger but already steady on plants and animals, the page still works. You may just need to read the instructions out loud. And if they are older and legs and wings never quite stuck, this is a short review rather than busywork.

Yes, both. We made it for Kindergarten plants and animals, and the page works the same whether it lands on a kitchen table or a center rotation. At home, most families go through it together and talk the answers out loud, and that talking is where most of the learning happens with legs and wings. In class it runs well as independent work while you pull a small group. Print one copy or thirty, whichever the day needs.

Fill in the blank for each sentence about what a body part lets an animal do: wings for flying, fins for swimming, fur for warmth, legs for walking.

That worksheet only counts legs and wings on several animals in a table. This one covers four different body parts, adding fins and fur, and asks what each one is FOR rather than how many there are.

Counting legs and wings first gives children practice naming body parts. This worksheet then connects each part to its job, the more advanced skill.