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1st grade · Science · Unit 4 of 7

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.

Alaska content standards learning standard: 1-LS1-2; 1-LS3-1 · parents and offspring behave in ways that help offspring survive, and young are like 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 Alaska

In the Alaska content standards, this is unit 4 of 7 in 1st grade Science, after Sky & Seasons and before Ideas from Nature.

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: Alaska Department of Education and Early Development

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

    How does a baby kangaroo stay safe?

    • Under a rock alone
    • In its mother's pouch
    • In a pond
    • In a nest

  2. Question 2

    A puppy cries. What does its mother do?

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

  3. Question 3

    A baby penguin stays warm on its parent's…

    • wing tip
    • beak
    • feet
    • head

  4. Question 4

    Why do parent birds sit on eggs?

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

  5. Question 5

    A young sunflower looks like…

    • a cactus
    • a rose bush
    • a small sunflower plant
    • a pine tree

  6. Question 6

    A rose bush and its young plant are…

    • alike but not exactly the same
    • totally different
    • not plants
    • exactly the same

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