Year 1 Human body parts worksheet

“Humans are animals” is free to print, with no account. It is the first sheet in the Year 1 science unit “Human body parts”, for children aged 5 to 6, and takes about 20 minutes.

Print it on A4. The child's pages come first; the answers, and what each wrong answer tells you, are on the grown-up page that follows. Weeks 10 to 15 of the year, 6 sheets in the unit.

Free sample · answers on the last page

Humans are animals

Name: ____________ · Date: ____________
Year 1 · Science · about 20 minutes
Answers are on the grown-up page

Today I can say that humans are animals and mammals, and name hair as a mammal feature.

A Look back3 min

1.
How many snails did we count?
2.
Which card goes in the empty box of the plant's life cycle? Circle one.
flowerleafroot
3.
Which pet do most children in the class have? Circle one.
catdogfish

B Watch me, then you4 min

Ola looks at a cat. Is a cat a mammal?

Watch me

A cat with soft striped fur sitting on a mat

Hair is a feature that mammals have.

A cat has hair, called fur, all over its body.

So a cat is a mammal.

Now you

1.
Ola sorts animals into a tally. A dog has hair on its body. Which row does the dog go in?

C Your turn6 min

Look at the animals in the picture. Read each animal's features, then decide if it is a mammal.

A zebra, a robin and a goldfish, each drawn on plain paper

1.
A zebra has hair on its body. Is a zebra a mammal? Circle one.
yesno
2.
A robin has feathers and wings and no hair. Is a robin a mammal? Circle one.
yesno
3.
A person has hair on their head. Is a person a mammal? Circle the answer.
yesno
4.
A bat has hair and can fly. Is a bat a mammal? Circle one.
yesno

Say it out loud: Which feature did you look for each time? Did it change from one row to the next?

D Spot the mistake3 min

A goldfish swimming in a round glass bowl with plain water

Ben says: “A fish is a mammal because it lives in water.”

1.
Is Ben right? Circle one.
yesno

E Think deeper3 min

Look at the three animals. Think about which ones are like you.

A chimpanzee, a zebra and a robin standing on grass

1.
Which animal in the picture is a mammal, like you? Say which feature tells you.

How did it feel?

I can do it Nearly Not yet

For the grown-up

Humans are animals · 2 minutes to read

Answers, and what a wrong one tells you

A

1. 2 If your child says 4, they have counted the birds. Ask them to put a finger on the snail row.

2. flower If your child picks leaf or root, ask which stage grows on the adult plant before the seed forms.

3. cat If your child picks dog or fish, ask them to find the tallest bar first and read its label.

B

1. Look for: The hair row, because a dog has hair, so it is a mammal. If your child writes no hair, ask: what covers a dog's body?

C

1. yes

2. no If your child says yes, they may think wings make a mammal. Ask what covers the body of a robin.

3. yes

4. yes If your child says no, they are judging by flying. Ask them what covers a bat's body, then check the hair feature again.

D

1. no Ben has noticed where the fish lives, not what covers its body. Ask your child if a fish has hair. Mammals have hair, fish have gills and fins.

E

1. Look for: Picks the chimpanzee or the zebra and says it has hair, like people.

Words to use

Say“What is one feature of this animal? Does that feature tell us it is a mammal?”

Instead of“Tell them the answer is mammal and move on.”

After the sheet

Look through a picture book together. For each animal, ask: has it got hair, feathers, scales or gills? Sort the pictures into two piles: mammals and not mammals.

Tick what your child got right in StudyDen. Anything missed comes back in a later Look back box, so there's no need to redo the sheet.

The rest of this unit

5 more sheets come with a StudyDen plan, in teaching order:

Outside body parts(with a plan)
Body parts on the inside(with a plan)
Our Five Senses(with a plan)
Eyes, ears and nose(with a plan)
Taste and touch(with a plan)

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