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Animals A to Z Activity: Urchin

Students learn interesting facts about animals as they reinforce basic skills of capitalization, punctuation, spelling, and grammar.

If you would like to share a photo of this animal with your students, we suggest you search the Google Image Library; it is an excellent source of animal photos. And EnchantedLearning.com offers coloring pages related to all of our Animals A to Z animals.

Activity Key

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  • There are about 700 different kind of sea urchins a round the world.
  • Some people call urchins sea hedgehogs becuz they are cover with spines.
  • A sea urchin use it spines for catching food and protecting itself.
  • An urchin has know eyes or legs, but it can move slowly a long the sea floor.
  • The urchin is one off a sea otter's favorite foods
  • Female sea urchins lay millions of tiny egg at a time.

Answer Key

  • There are about 700 different kinds of sea urchins around the world.
  • Some people call urchins sea hedgehogs because they are covered with spines.
  • A sea urchin uses its spines for catching food and protecting itself.
  • An urchin has no eyes or legs, but it can move slowly along the sea floor.
  • The urchin is one of a sea otter's favorite foods.
  • Female sea urchins lay millions of tiny eggs at a time.

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About Animals A to Z

Education World's Animals A to Z printable activity pages are designed for weekly use with students in grade 2-4. Students learn interesting facts about animals they know (and some animals they don't know) as they reinforce basic skills of capitalization, punctuation, spelling, and grammar.

These work sheets are also excellent test-preparation tools. The skills emphasized in the series are those found on all standardized tests in grades 2 and 3: simple word usage, end-of-sentence punctuation, comma placement in a series, basic spelling, and others. The skills do not include the appropriate use of apostrophes (except in contractions) and more advanced skills. If you want editing activities that include those skills, be sure to see our daily Every-Day Edit series.

For more information about this series, or for ideas for using it, be sure to see the Ideas for Using Animals A to Z page.

Note: At first, these activities might be challenging for your students. That's not a bad thing! Encourage them to keep at it. Go over the activities as a class. If students stick to it, they will get better at finding all ten errors on each work sheet. They'll be developing the skills that they will encounter on standardized tests too!