Koala Life Cycle Worksheet: Cut and Paste Matching Activity
This worksheet introduces children ages 3-5 to the life cycle of a koala, from a tiny newborn called a joey that lives in its mother's pouch to a fully grown adult, while practicing scissor and gluing skills. Learning that koala joeys start out riding on their mother's back adds a memorable, specific detail that makes the science concept stick.
Curriculum
How to use this worksheet
Cut out the picture cards at the bottom of the page, keeping them close by. Look at each stage box on the worksheet and talk about what a newborn koala joey, a growing joey, and an adult koala each look like. Have your child match each cut-out picture to its correct life-stage box and glue it into place. Once complete, review the whole sequence together from newborn to adult.
Materials needed
- Scissors
- Glue
- Pencil
Extension activities
- •Draw your own koala life cycle from joey to adult.
- •Research other animals that carry their young in a pouch, like kangaroos.
- •Compare how koala joeys are cared for versus how human babies are cared for.
- •Make a koala craft using gray paper and cotton balls for fur.
- •Look up what koalas eat and act out munching on eucalyptus leaves.
Tips for parents and teachers
Encourage children to discuss the different stages and what they know about koalas, including the surprising detail that joeys live in their mother's pouch for months. Help with cutting and pasting as needed, especially for smaller picture cards. This worksheet is a good springboard for talking about other pouched animals, or marsupials.
Written by
Hemsweta Jain · Teacher Cheena
MBA and Early Childhood Educator, teaching since 2014 · Founder of RaisoActive, Mumbai
Every RaisoActive worksheet is designed and checked by the founder before publishing.
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