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1st grade · Science · Unit 3 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.

Arizona Academic Standards learning standard: 1.L3U1.9 · plants and animals, including people, resemble 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 Arizona

In the Arizona Academic Standards, this is unit 3 of 7 in 1st grade Science, after Signals Far Away 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: Arizona Department of Education

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

    Young and parent dogs both have…

    • fins
    • feathers
    • scales and gills
    • fur and four legs

  2. Question 2

    Which baby looks most like a cow?

    • A kitten
    • A calf
    • A chick
    • A tadpole

  3. Question 3

    A kitten looks like its…

    • mother cat
    • mother fish
    • mother dog
    • mother bird

  4. Question 4

    A baby penguin stays warm on its parent's…

    • head
    • beak
    • wing tip
    • feet

  5. Question 5

    Why does a mother duck lead her ducklings?

    • To scare them
    • To lose them
    • To race them
    • To keep them safe

  6. Question 6

    A seedling has leaves shaped like its parent's. Why?

    • It is a different plant
    • Young plants are like their parents
    • It copied a picture
    • The sun drew them

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