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1st grade · Science · Unit 7 of 12

Ideas from Nature

Plant and animal parts give us ideas.

What your child practices

Practices how plants and animals use their outside parts to survive, and how people copy those parts to design solutions, like burrs and hook-and-loop straps.

Alabama Course of Study content standard: 1.5 · how outside features help living things, and ideas people copy from them

How we explain it

Children can open this short lesson before they practice.

  1. Plants and animals have parts that help them live.
  2. Owls have big eyes to see at night. Quills protect a porcupine.
  3. People copy these parts to make new things.

Example: What do a plant's roots do? Roots grow down into the soil. They take in water. Answer: take in water

Ideas from Nature in Alabama

In the Alabama Course of Study, this is unit 7 of 12 in 1st grade Science, after Plant Parts at Work and before Our Bodies & Senses.

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

    What does an eagle use to grab food?

    • Sharp claws
    • Soft fur
    • A shell
    • Roots

  2. Question 2

    People made airplane wings by watching…

    • fish
    • worms
    • birds
    • snails

  3. Question 3

    People made snowshoes by copying…

    • big, wide feet
    • a bird's beak
    • a turtle shell
    • a fish tail

  4. Question 4

    What do a bird's wings help it do?

    • Fly
    • Climb rocks
    • Swim deep
    • Dig

  5. Question 5

    A turtle hides in its shell. People copied this to make…

    • a kite
    • a helmet
    • a pillow
    • a spoon

  6. Question 6

    Some animals have colors that match their home. This helps them…

    • shine
    • hide
    • fly
    • swim

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