Worksheet Kindergarten Health & Consumer Science

Safe Sip at Juniper Pond: A Kindergarten Water Sorting Page

A kindergarten health worksheet set on a park field trip, sorting six water pictures into safe to drink and not safe, then drawing one way to keep the pond clean.

Grade: Kindergarten
Subject: Health & Consumer Science
Material: Worksheet
Time: 20 min
Prep: No prep
Materials: crayons or pencils

Standards

K-ESS3-3 NGSS

Communicate solutions that will reduce the impact of humans on the land, water, air, and/or other living things in the local environment.

How this material aligns: Item 9 asks each child to draw and name one thing park visitors can do to keep Juniper Pond cleaner, communicating a solution that reduces human impact on local water.

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W.K.2 Common Core ELA

Use a combination of drawing, dictating, and writing to compose informative/explanatory texts in which they name what they are writing about and supply some information about the topic.

How this material aligns: Item 10 has each child dictate or write one true sentence about the drawing from item 9, naming the topic and supplying information as this standard requires.

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Objectives

Students will sort common water sources into safe to drink and not safe to drink.
Students will give a reason a pond or puddle is not safe to drink from.
Students will draw and label one way to keep a park pond cleaner.

Vocabulary

Key words: safe, pond, tap, clean, dirty

Teacher overview

The class has just walked to Larkspur Park and eaten lunch beside Juniper Pond. Ducks are on the water, a hose is running by the flower bed, and somebody has asked whether it is all right to drink from the pond. This worksheet uses that afternoon as its single scenario and asks children to decide, picture by picture, which water is safe to drink and which is not.

Read every item aloud. The sorting is not a trick: children at this age usually know that pond water is not for drinking, yet the reasons they give are worth hearing, because they often mention only what they can see. The last two items move from sorting to doing, and they are the ones to save time for.

Safe Sip at Juniper Pond: A Kindergarten Water Sorting Page — Kindergarten Health & Consumer Science

Name: ____________________________ Date: ______________

Student Worksheet

Read aloud: Our class walked to Larkspur Park. We ate lunch by Juniper Pond. Look at each picture. Is that water safe to drink? Circle yes or no.

A cup of tap water from the park sink. Is it safe to drink?
Juniper Pond, with two ducks on it. Is it safe to drink?
Your own water bottle from your bag. Is it safe to drink?
A muddy puddle by the swings. Is it safe to drink?
A garden hose running on the flower bed. Is it safe to drink?
The park drinking fountain by the gate. Is it safe to drink?
Tell your teacher one reason the pond water is not safe to drink.
Tell your teacher what you do with your hands after you touch pond water.
Draw one thing that would keep Juniper Pond cleaner.
Tell your teacher about your drawing. Your teacher will write your words.

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Answer Key

Answer: Yes.
Tap water at the park sink comes through town pipes and is treated before it gets there.
Answer: No.
Pond water sits in the open. Ducks, leaves, and runoff from the path all end up in it, and nothing has cleaned it.
Answer: Yes.
A bottle filled at home or at school holds the same treated water as the tap.
Answer: No.
A puddle holds whatever the rain washed off the path and the parking area.
Answer: No.
Hose water is for plants and washing. It has been sitting warm in the hose, and the nozzle end has been on the ground.
Answer: Yes.
A drinking fountain is fed by the same treated town water as the sink.
Answer: Because ducks and dirt get into it and nobody cleans it.
Accept any reason in the child's own words, including that animals swim in it, that leaves and mud are in it, or that it is not from a pipe.
Answer: Wash them with soap and water.
Accept hand sanitizer or wipes as a second-best answer when a sink is not close, which is worth naming out loud on a field trip.
Answer: A drawing of one clean-up action.
Common correct drawings include putting trash in a can, carrying litter home, keeping food scraps off the bank, staying on the path, and picking up after a dog.
Answer: One spoken or written sentence about the drawing.
A complete answer names what the drawing shows and tells why it helps, such as saying the trash can keeps wrappers out of the pond. Scribe the child's exact words.

Differentiation

Support

Fold the page so only two pictures show at a time. For items 1 through 6, offer a two-choice motion instead of circling: thumbs up for safe and thumbs down for not safe, then circle together. For item 9, offer a pre-drawn trash can that the child completes and colors.

Extension

Ask the child to sort the six pictures a second way, into water that came through a pipe and water that did not, and to say what the two sorts have in common. For item 10, ask them to write the sentence themselves and to add the word because.

ELL supports

Pre-teach safe, pond, tap, hose, and wash with photographs or the real objects. Use the thumbs motion for every item so a child can answer all six without speaking. Accept items 7, 8, and 10 in the home language, then add one English word together while scribing.

Extensions

Walk the class to your own school sink, drinking fountain, and outdoor hose and repeat the sort with the real fixtures instead of pictures, which settles the hose question quickly. Post the item 9 drawings together as a park sign display and send a photograph of it to your parks department, which often answers with a thank-you letter the class can hear read aloud.