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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. What was there most of on the field?
  2. 2. What should the school deal with first?
  3. 3. How many cans were picked up?
2.Which would make less litter at lunchtime?
  • A.A lunch box you take home again
  • B.Lots of small wrappers
  • C.Paper plates left on the grass
3.What is the best way to stop litter on the field?
  • A.Drop it near the fence
  • B.Put trash in a trash can, or take it home
  • C.Leave it for the wind
4.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
5.Most of the litter was chip bags. Where would a new trash can help most?
  • A.Where children eat their chips
  • B.Behind the shed
  • C.On the roof
6.The class makes a poster about litter. What should it say?
  • A.Please put your trash in the trash can
  • B.Litter is fun
  • C.Drop your trash here
7.What could the class do with the plastic bottles they picked up?
  • A.Bury them
  • B.Put them in the recycling
  • C.Throw them back on the field

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Answer key — What We Picked Up

Set 3. Prints on its own sheet.

  1. 1.1. Chip bags, with 14. 2. Chip bags, because there were most of those. 3. 3 cans.
  2. 2.A lunch box you take home again
  3. 3.Put trash in a trash can, or take it home
  4. 4.Count the litter again and compare
  5. 5.Where children eat their chips
  6. 6.Please put your trash in the trash can
  7. 7.Put them in the recycling

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