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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 should the school deal with first?
  3. 3. What was there most of on the field?
2.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
3.Why is litter bad for the animals on the field?
  • A.It gives them food
  • B.They can eat it or get caught in it
  • C.It keeps them warm
4.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
5.Which would make less litter at lunchtime?
  • A.Paper plates left on the grass
  • B.Lots of small wrappers
  • C.A lunch box you take home again
6.How could the class find out if fewer chip bags are dropped next month?
  • A.Count the litter again and compare
  • B.Guess
  • C.Look at one packet
7.Why did the class wear gloves to pick up litter?
  • A.To keep warm
  • B.To make the litter heavier
  • C.To keep their hands safe and clean

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Answer key — What We Picked Up

Set 5. Prints on its own sheet.

  1. 1.1. 8 plastic bottles. 2. Chip bags, because there were most of those. 3. Chip bags, with 14.
  2. 2.Where children eat their chips
  3. 3.They can eat it or get caught in it
  4. 4.Put them in the recycling
  5. 5.A lunch box you take home again
  6. 6.Count the litter again and compare
  7. 7.To keep their hands safe and clean

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