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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.

Maine Learning Results 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 Maine

In the Maine Learning Results, 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: Maine 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

    A bear cub learns to fish by…

    • watching its mother
    • sleeping all day
    • reading a book
    • asking a fish

  2. Question 2

    How does a baby kangaroo stay safe?

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

  3. Question 3

    Which baby looks most like a cow?

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

  4. Question 4

    Seeds from an apple tree grow into…

    • grass
    • sunflowers
    • apple trees
    • orange trees

  5. Question 5

    A baby monkey holds on to its…

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

  6. Question 6

    A mother bird drops a worm in a chick's mouth. What is she doing?

    • Building a nest
    • Feeding her young
    • Hiding
    • Teaching it to swim

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