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1st grade · Science · Unit 5 of 12

Animal Features

Fur, feathers, fins and shells

What your child practices

Noticing body parts like fur, feathers, fins and shells, and how features help animals and plants live where they do.

Alabama Course of Study content standard: 1.5 · shells, fur, feathers and other outside features that help animals live

How we explain it

Children can open this short lesson before they practice.

  1. Birds have feathers. Fish have fins.
  2. Cats, foxes and rabbits have fur.
  3. Body parts help animals live where they do.

Example: Fur or feathers: an owl? An owl is a bird. Birds have feathers. Answer: feathers

Animal Features in Alabama

In the Alabama Course of Study, this is unit 5 of 12 in 1st grade Science, after Animal Survival and before Plant Parts at Work.

Gradelings describes a child's practice on this unit as Beginning, Approaching, Meeting or Exceeding (Four practice steps). That reflects practice, not a report-card mark: the teacher decides the mark.

Source: Alabama State Department of Education (ALSDE)

Sample questions

A taste of this unit. In the app, questions change every time and get easier or harder to match your child.

  1. Question 1

    Which animal has a very long neck?

    • 🐖pig
    • 🦒giraffe
    • 🐇rabbit

  2. Question 2

    A beaver's big front teeth help it…

    🦫
    • ☁️fly
    • 🌙see at night
    • 🪵chew wood

  3. Question 3

    A duck's webbed feet help it…

    🦆
    • 🏊swim
    • 🕳️dig holes
    • 🌳climb trees

  4. Question 4

    Which animal has feathers?

    • 🐟fish
    • 🐦bird
    • 🐕dog

  5. Question 5

    Which animal has no legs?

    • 🦆duck
    • 🐕dog
    • 🐍snake

  6. Question 6

    Which animal has a shell?

    • 🐢turtle
    • 🐸frog
    • 🐇rabbit

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