Why Musk Oxen Form a Circle, Read and Answer

Talk about groups your child knows, like a team or a class, and what each person does, before reading. After each page, ask what would happen if an animal lived alone. Check answers with the key.

Read why musk oxen form a circle around their calves, study the diagram and answer questions. Some animals live in herds. Working together helps the herd survive. A predator is an animal that hunts other animals. The directions on the page read: Read the passage. Then, study the labeled diagram. Use both to answer the questions on the next page. On page 2: Read each question. Circle the letter of the best answer, or write your answer on the lines. Use the passage and the diagram to help you. The answer key covers the questions on page 2.

Yes, both. We made it for 3rd Grade living things, 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 animals in groups. In class it runs well as independent work while you pull a small group. Print one copy or thirty, whichever the day needs.

A group can find food, watch for danger and protect its young better than one animal alone. On these sheets, a meerkat guard gives an alarm call when it sees a hawk or a jackal, and musk oxen stand in a tight ring facing out so wolves cannot reach the calves.

It asks children to argue from evidence that some animals form groups that help members survive. Each sheet gives a short passage and a diagram, and the questions ask children to point to the part that shows how the group helps.

Meerkats take turns as guards, babysitters, diggers and foragers. In a carpenter ant colony the queen lays eggs, and workers and soldiers share the other jobs. In a wolf pack, the mother and father lead, and the pack hunts and raises the pups together.

Yes. All four animals in groups sheets have an answer key.

4 printable worksheets, all free to preview. Downloads are included with a ClassWeekly free trial, and every page prints on standard 8.5 x 11 paper.

These are written for 3rd Grade students, roughly ages 8-9. Many teachers also use them a grade up for review or a grade down as an extension, so use the preview to judge the fit for a particular child.

Yes. Each one shows the NGSS code it covers on its own page, so you can check the alignment yourself rather than taking our word for it.