Helping and Harming is a free printable Kindergarten science worksheet on solutions that reduce what people do to the local environment, aligned to Common Core standard K-ESS3-3. It prints 3 questions with an answer key on its own sheet of paper, in 25 versions that each ask different questions, so no two pupils in the class work from the same page. Print it from the browser or download it as a PDF — no account, no email.
Set 2 of 25 · the same problems every time you open this link.
Set 1 has all 25 in a single PDF. All 25 sets ask different questions.
Helping and Harming
K-ESS3-3
NameDate
Sort each one into helps or harms.
1.Sort each one: Helps living things or Harms living things?
Sort: Leaving the tap running all break, Dropping a crisp packet on the field, Planting a tree in the grounds, Filling a bird feeder in winter
Helps living thingsHarms living things
2.Sort each one: Helps living things or Harms living things?
Sort: Pouring paint down a drain, Breaking branches off a young tree, Making a pond for frogs, Putting litter in a bin
Helps living thingsHarms living things
3.Sort each one: Helps living things or Harms living things?
Sort: Pulling up flowers the bees visit, Walking to school instead of driving, Leaving a bag in the pond, Turning the tap off while brushing
Helps living thingsHarms living things
LessonPrint · K-ESS3-3 · Set 2 · free to copy for classroom use
Answer key — Helping and Harming
Set 2. Prints on its own sheet.
1.1. Dropping a crisp packet on the field — Harms living things 2. Filling a bird feeder in winter — Helps living things 3. Leaving the tap running all break — Harms living things 4. Planting a tree in the grounds — Helps living things
2.1. Breaking branches off a young tree — Harms living things 2. Making a pond for frogs — Helps living things 3. Pouring paint down a drain — Harms living things 4. Putting litter in a bin — Helps living things
3.1. Leaving a bag in the pond — Harms living things 2. Pulling up flowers the bees visit — Harms living things 3. Turning the tap off while brushing — Helps living things 4. Walking to school instead of driving — Helps living things
More practice for K-ESS3-3
Share ways people can do less harm to the land, water, air and living things nearby.
Teaching this next? Helping and Harming is the 45-minute plan for it, with the misconceptions to expect.