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1st grade · Science · Unit 9 of 12

Parents & Babies

How parents help their young, and how babies look like them.

What your child practices

Practices how animal parents feed, protect and teach their young, and how young plants and animals are like, but not exactly like, their parents.

Alabama Course of Study content standard: 1.6; 1.7 · how parents help their young survive, and how young are like and unlike their parents

How we explain it

Children can open this short lesson before they practice.

  1. Animal parents feed, protect and teach their young.
  2. Babies look like their parents, but not exactly.
  3. A baby kangaroo stays safe in its mother's pouch.

Example: A baby bird chirps with its mouth open. Why? Baby birds can't find food yet. They call so a parent feeds them. Answer: to get food

Parents & Babies in Alabama

In the Alabama Course of Study, this is unit 9 of 12 in 1st grade Science, after Our Bodies & Senses and before Bird, Mammal & Fish Life Cycles.

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

    Seeds from an apple tree grow into…

    • apple trees
    • sunflowers
    • grass
    • orange trees

  2. Question 2

    How are you like your family?

    • We are all exactly the same
    • We all have wings
    • We may have the same hair color
    • We all have tails

  3. Question 3

    A puppy cries. What does its mother do?

    • Goes to sleep
    • Runs away
    • Hides its food
    • Comes to help it

  4. Question 4

    A baby monkey holds on to its…

    • a rock
    • a fish
    • tree trunk only
    • mother

  5. Question 5

    Why do parent birds sit on eggs?

    • To hide them from the sun
    • To cool them
    • To break them
    • To keep them warm

  6. Question 6

    A baby elephant stays close to the herd. Why?

    • To find snow
    • The adults protect it
    • To hide from food
    • To swim alone

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