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Herbivore, Carnivore and Omnivore Worksheets and Activities

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Herbivore Carnivore or Omnivore?

I have added a new 20-page section on herbivores, carnivores and omnivores to the Animal Unit.  This new section includes notebook pages, sorting cards and a herbivore, carnivore and omnivore sorting mat, as well as  identification worksheets.

Kids will not only learn the basics:

  • Herbivores eat plants.
  • Carnivores eat meat.
  • Omnivores eat both plants and meat.

but will also learn about some of the adaptations that make them adept getting their food!

If animals all ate the same things, there wouldn’t be enough food to go around.  Animals have different adaptations that help them get the food they eat. This packet looks at animal adaptations including teeth, claws, talons and beaks.

Herbivores Carnivores Omnivores Worksheets Activities Sorting CardsThe notebook pages come in two versions. There are tracing pages for younger students and fill-in-the-blank pages that you can use with older students.

Herbivore Carnivore Omnivore Notebook Pages WorksheetsWhen my kids were younger, they enjoyed doing sorting activities.  There are Montessori 3-part cards and a sorting mat in this section.

herbivore carnivore omnivore sorting cards and sorting matFinally, there are a couple of “Herbivore Carnivore or Omnivore” Worksheets. Students either write in H, C and O (if they are younger) or if you want them to write out the entire word you can print out the other version that is provided:

Carnivore Herbivore or Omnivore WorksheetClick here to save this on Pinterest:

Herbivore Carnivore Omnivore Worksheets and Activities

What else is in the Animal Packet?

  • Animal Body Coverings – feathers, fur, scales, skin
  • Types of Animals and Animal Characteristics – In this section, we go over some of the traits common to mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians and fish (ie. having a backbone, being warm (or cold) blooded, feeding their young with milk, laying eggs… etc. etc.)
  • Types of Animal cut-and-paste activity (below)
  • “What Am I?” Identify worksheet
  • Types of Animals – Exceptions! — Did you know that the platypus is a mammal that lays eggs?  This notebook page talks about some exceptions to traits discussed above
  • Insects vs. spiders
  • Invertebrate groups — and their characteristics (legs, no legs, antenna or no antenna, etc.)
  • Animal and their Tracks – Montessori 3-part cards (which you can use to play a “Memory Game” – placing all the cards face down and trying to pick out matches); also animal and their tracks matching pages
  • Wild vs. Domesticated Animals – Sorting Cards; Notebook Pages
  • Nocturnal vs. Diurnal Animals – Sorting Cards, identification page
  • Whose Tongue? – Fun identification page, notebook page

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As many of you know, we have a 75+ page animal packet that is about the different types of animals (vertebrates, invertebrates), animal characteristics, insects vs. spiders, domesticated vs. wild animals, animal tracks and much more!

There are notebook pages and sorting cards about animal body coverings: feathers, fur, scales and skin. This section includes a couple of notebook pages about why animal’s body coverings are so different.  Younger students can use the tracing pages provided.  There is also a set of sorting cards and a sorting mat as well as a practice worksheet for the different types of body coverings.

Feathers Fur Scales or Skin Worksheets and Sorting CardsHere are some of the materials that are also included in the Animal Packet:

The five animal groups & animal characteristics:

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The 5 animal groups worksheets

For those of you who want to know more about what is included in the Animal Packet, read on below:

Animal characteristics worksheets animal classification

Below you’ll find few more screenshots of what is included:

Types-of-Animals-Worksheets-Animal-Characteristics-WorksheetsInvertebrate-Groups-Activities

Animal-Track-ActivitiesAnimals-Domesticated-vs-Wild-Animals-Activity

Animal Homes and Shelters - Where do animals live worksheets

I also added in some fun pages about Animal Tongues. (Those are on pages 63 to 75.)  If you’re scratching your head about that… my kids — especially my girls, really love learning about animals.  I thought it would be fun to talk about tongues as we start off our digestive system unit this coming semester!

There is a page where they have to identify “Whose Tongue?”  And, there are some notebook pages that talk about the many functions of animal tongues… from eating and drinking, to smelling and cooling themselves down. Again, there is a tracing page for those of you who are using this unit with younger kids.

Animal -TonguesNocturnal Animal Quick Study - Opossums Raccoons Skunks Beavers

The price of this packet is $5.99. ?  You can use the link below to purchase it – or you can read even more about it here: Animal Unit: Vertebrate-Invertebrate Animals Worksheet Packet.

Note: For those of you who purchased this unit already, you should have received an email from SendOwl (the delivery service I use) with your download link. If you didn’t receive that or have any trouble with your download remember you can always contact me! ~Liesl

By the way, the Animal Packet is more than 100+ pages, I just haven’t re-done the picture below! ~Liesl

Be sure to check out the Big Animal BUNDLE options here or below!

Animal Unit: $5.99

Don’t forget to check your PayPal email address for the download link!

You can use the add to cart button if you want to purchase any of the other units (Rainforest Unit, Taxonomy, Biology Unit) (below) as well.

$5.99 Animal Unit

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Animal Unit - 100-page Animal Characteristics Vertebrates Invertebrates Spiders Insects Animal Homes and more

The Big Animal BUNDLE includes 8 packets.   1) Animal Unit, 2) World Animals Packet, 3) Rainforest Packet, 4) Life Cycles Packet, 5) Winter Packet – plus several mini units 6) the Cicadas Packet and 7) the Chameleon Packet. 8) the Wolves Mini-Unit.

Be sure to check out the Big Animal BUNDLE options here or below!

What did one Homeschool Parent say about the Big Animal BUNDLE?

We got the animal bundle a few weeks back. An AMAZING resource! Perfect for a combined geography project. Especially love how you can adapt these packs to suit your learning style. ~Homeschool Mum in the U.K.

Quick Previews

Big Animal BUNDLE: $19.99

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More details about the Big Animal BUNDLE here!

Big Animal BUNDLE - with 8 pdfsBig Animal BundlePlus three mini units on wolves, cicadas and chameleons!

Rainforest Unit Worksheets and Activitieslayers of the rainforest worksheets and activitiesRainforest Animals Montessori 3-Part CardsRainforest Insect WorksheetsLife Cycle Worksheets - Activities - Montessori CardsLife Cycles Worksheets and ActivitiesLife Cycle Montessori 3-Part Cards chicken frog dragonfly mosquito butterflyWinter Packet for Early ElementaryPolar Animals Worksheets

Where do animals hibernate - interactive notebook activity matching page tracing pageWhere do animals spend the winter - hiberniculaHibernation Unit worksheets - Hibernation brumation torpor estivation diapause endotherm ectotherm

If your kids are a bit older (upper elementary, middle school) the Scientific Classification and Taxonomy Unit might be a great fit!

Scientific Classification and Taxonomy Unit - Packet 60+pages Hands-On-Activities Scientific Classification and Taxonomy Unit Taxonomy-and-Classification-Activity

Biology Unit (find out more at this post): After our family did the Animal Unit, we went on to study the biosphere. We talked about the different biomes, animal feeding relationships and more.

$8.99 Biology Unit: Biomes, habitats, ecosystem, biological interactions, feeding relationships (70 pages)

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Biology Packet - Ecosystems Biomes Food Chains Food Web Trophic Levels PopulationsBiology Unit Ecology - Biomes-Ecosystem-Habitats- relationships between living organisms and their physical environmentFood Chain Food Web Food Pyramid Activties - Interactive Notebook Pagessymbiosis commensalism mutualism worksheets and activities

As I said above, if your kids are a bit older (upper elementary, middle school) the Scientific Classification and Taxonomy Unit might be a better fit.  We did this Animal Unit several years ago and just this year we did an entire unit on scientific classification & taxonomy. We build dichotomous keys and went into quite a bit of depth about the animal phyla:

$7.99 Scientific Classification and Taxonomy Packet

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Scientific Classification and Taxonomy Unit - Packet 60+pages

Food Chain Food Web Food Pyramid Activties - Interactive Notebook Pages

$8.99 Ocean Unit – Layers of the Ocean/Ocean Zone  

Don’t forget to check your PayPal email address for the download link from SendOwl (the delivery service I use)!

Ocean Unit - Marine Habitats Coral Reefs Tide Pools Tides Currents Ocean Zones Bioluminescence Worksheets and moreMarine Habitats WorksheetsOcean worksheets marine habitats ocean features and moreBioluminescence-Worksheets

Biology BUNDLE of 3

We also have a Biology BUNDLE of 3: 1) Biology Unit (Biomes, habitats, food chains/webs, feeding relationships) 2)  Scientific Classification & Taxonomy Packet 3) Ocean Unit & Layers of the Ocean/Ocean Zone Activities

$21.99 Biology BUNDLE of 3: 1) Biology Unit (Biomes, habitats, food chains/webs, feeding relationships) 2)  Scientific Classification & Taxonomy Packet 3) Ocean Unit & Layers of the Ocean/Ocean Zone Activities

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