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What We Picked Up is a free printable Kindergarten science worksheet on using a litter count to choose a way to reduce litter, aligned to NGSS performance expectation K-ESS3-3. It prints 7 questions with an answer key on its own sheet of paper, in 25 versions that each ask different questions, so no two students in the class work from the same page. Print it from the browser or download it as a PDF — no account, no email.

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What We Picked Up

K-ESS3-3

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Read the record, then answer the questions.

1.Read the record, then answer the questions.

What We Picked Up

A count of the litter our class picked up from the school field in one morning. LITTER FROM THE FIELD Chip bags ....... 14 Paper ............... 11 Plastic bottles ..... 8 Cans ................ 3 We wore gloves and used a picker.

  1. 1. How many cans were picked up?
  2. 2. What was there most of on the field?
  3. 3. Why does litter on the field matter?
2.Most of the litter was chip bags. Where would a new trash can help most?
  • A.Behind the shed
  • B.Where children eat their chips
  • C.On the roof
3.Why did the class wear gloves to pick up litter?
  • A.To keep warm
  • B.To keep their hands safe and clean
  • C.To make the litter heavier
4.What is the best way to stop litter on the field?
  • A.Put trash in a trash can, or take it home
  • B.Leave it for the wind
  • C.Drop it near the fence
5.What could the class do with the plastic bottles they picked up?
  • A.Put them in the recycling
  • B.Bury them
  • C.Throw them back on the field
6.How could the class find out if fewer chip bags are dropped next month?
  • A.Look at one packet
  • B.Count the litter again and compare
  • C.Guess
7.The class makes a poster about litter. What should it say?
  • A.Litter is fun
  • B.Please put your trash in the trash can
  • C.Drop your trash here

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Answer key — What We Picked Up

Set 12. Prints on its own sheet.

  1. 1.1. 3 cans. 2. Chip bags, with 14. 3. Litter can harm the animals and plants living on the field.
  2. 2.Where children eat their chips
  3. 3.To keep their hands safe and clean
  4. 4.Put trash in a trash can, or take it home
  5. 5.Put them in the recycling
  6. 6.Count the litter again and compare
  7. 7.Please put your trash in the trash can

Last reviewed 2026-09-05. Aligned to K-ESS3-3 of the Next Generation Science Standards.