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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 plastic bottles were picked up?
  2. 2. What would happen to the count if there were more trash cans?
  3. 3. What was there most of on the field?
2.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
3.The class makes a poster about litter. What should it say?
  • A.Drop your trash here
  • B.Please put your trash in the trash can
  • C.Litter is fun
4.Why did the class wear gloves to pick up litter?
  • A.To make the litter heavier
  • B.To keep their hands safe and clean
  • C.To keep warm
5.Why is litter bad for the animals on the field?
  • A.It gives them food
  • B.It keeps them warm
  • C.They can eat it or get caught in it
6.Which would make less litter at lunchtime?
  • A.Paper plates left on the grass
  • B.A lunch box you take home again
  • C.Lots of small wrappers
7.What could the class do with the plastic bottles they picked up?
  • A.Bury them
  • B.Throw them back on the field
  • C.Put them in the recycling

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Answer key — What We Picked Up

Set 21. Prints on its own sheet.

  1. 1.1. 8 plastic bottles. 2. The count would be smaller if litter went into trash cans. 3. Chip bags, with 14.
  2. 2.Count the litter again and compare
  3. 3.Please put your trash in the trash can
  4. 4.To keep their hands safe and clean
  5. 5.They can eat it or get caught in it
  6. 6.A lunch box you take home again
  7. 7.Put them in the recycling

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