Provide your students with illustrated animal and animal habitat flashcards they can instantly recognise and relate to. This comprehensive collection of 63 animals and 7 matching animal habitat picture cards features real-life photos perfect for a habitat sorting activity. Teach category sorting with this engaging printable picture sort.

Seven Animal Habitats Included

• Forest Habitat

• Rainforest Habitat

• Polar Habitat

• Desert Habitat

• Ocean Habitat

• Freshwater Habitat

• Savanna Habitat

There are bonus printable resources in this animal habitat pack, so you can teach way more than category sorting!

Use them for writing activities, vocabulary work and science lessons too.

Save Time Searching for Authentic Animal Habitat Pictures

These carefully curated cards are print-and-go. I’ve done the searching for you and hand-picked, high-quality photo images of animals and their matching habitats. You’ll find common animals like a frog and a dolphin and not-so-common ones like a gazelle and a Gila monster. 

I’ve tested these cards with various age groups – from preschool to grade one. Just download and print to get a set of illustrated animal habitat flash cards you can use over and over with your students.

If you are looking for age-appropriate resources that you can use over and over in your lessons and activities, you'll love this pack because I've included a heap of BONUS resources for you.

This Comprehensive Animal Habitat Flashcards pdf Contains:

• 63 Labelled Animal Vocabulary Cards: I’ve designed them so you can easily cut off the labels if you want a set of just animal pictures. You have the option of large or small cards as well. The full set of 63 cards comes in 2 sizes so you can choose the size to best fit your teaching needs.

• 7 Habitat Sorting mats: There are seven full-colour animal habitat sorting mats. The beautiful photo habitats will help your students remember the habitat sorting categories.

• Ink-saving Sorting Mat Labels: Don’t want to print out the full-colour sorting mats? Use the included black and white labels to make your own set of ink-friendly sorting mats. Just print the single page with the habitat blackline labels. Glue each habitat label to the top of a plain coloured card, and you’ll have instant category sorting mats.

• A Sorting Information Poster: This poster defines sorting as grouping objects based on their attributes. Use it to inform parents and other educators, to illustrate your learning intentions and as a visual reminder for students learning how to sort.

• 2 Sorting Learning Prompt Posters: These printable prompts make setting up habitat sorting activity super easy.

• 2 Writing Learning Prompt Posters: Animal picture cards make the perfect writing stimulus for young students. Set up an engaging Writing Center using the printable writing prompt posters included in your download.

• 2 Student Recording Sheets for Recording Their Picture Sorts: Including a way for children to record their sorting will give you valuable evidence of learning. Use this information to inform your planning. You could also use these recording sheets as an assessment piece. I’ve included two sizes of these sorting recording sheets for you to choose from.

• 2 Styles of Writing Paper in 2 Formats: Use the included animal and animal habitat writing paper to build your students' literacy skills. Children will enjoy using the labelled animal cards to prompt writing ideas for creative writing stories or for factual writing tasks about animals and their habitats.

• 11 Pages of Teaching Notes: These detailed teaching notes give you background information on each of the habitats. They include sections on the characteristics of each habitat, why these ecosystems are important, and suggested engaging learning ideas for possible enrichment and extension activities.

• Teacher Assessment Recording Sheet: I like to keep track of my students' progress. This recording sheet makes it easy. There’s a place to enter a sorting score and a space for short observational notes.

• Task Card Box Label and Document Wallet Label: If you keep your resources organised you are much more likely to use them. That’s why I included these storage labels. Ensure your resources are always at hand and organised. The animal picture cards can be kept in a task card box, but if you want to keep all the printables together, I suggest storing them all in a document wallet. That’s what I do. I put the picture cards inside a clip-lock bag and store it with all the other habitat printables in a clear document wallet.

Increase Engagement and Learn About Animals and Their Habitats

If you want to boost engagement, make your learning experiences hands-on and purposeful.

Use this extensive bundle of animal and habitat resources to create educational and interactive learning activities your students will love. These resources will bring learning about animals and their homes to life and help you teach numerous skills, from sorting and counting to categorisation skills and literacy.

These labelled animal and habitat flashcards can be used for:

• Word walls – in science, literacy or speech

• Vocabulary work and discussion starters

• Phonological awareness – word awareness

• Spelling cards - fold the labels to the back for self-correcting spelling practice

• Print two copies of the cards for fun card games like Animal Memory, Go-fish or Snap

• Writing Centers – as story starters and vocabulary writing tools

• Math Activities – for sorting and counting

• Science – for categorising skills and learning about living things and where they live 

• Environmental Awareness Lessons - highlighting the importance of protecting and conserving our diverse ecosystems

These Real-Life Vocabulary Cards are for Picture Sorts and MORE!

With these animal habitat vocabulary cards, you'll be able to do so much more than picture sorts.

Use them to support a variety of curriculum learning intentions.

✅ Develop vocabulary with the real-life environmental images on these cards. They will help students expand their vocabulary and improve word recognition.

✅ Use the habitat sorting mats and matching animal cards to practice categorisation and classification skills.

✅ These realistic cards also make valuable tools for speech therapy. They are perfect for language development and articulation practice.

✅ They can also be used for phonological awareness activities to teach the concept of a word.

✅ Other literacy and writing skills can also be taught with these resources. The cards make great story starters and spelling aids.

✅ Support your math learning objectives by using these cards for sorting and counting exercises.

✅ You can also use these cards in science when you are learning about animals and living things, habitats and environmental sustainability.

Download the Animal Habitat Flashcards Printable to have a resource you can use over and over – they are for so much more than just picture sorts!