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1st grade · Science · Unit 4 of 8

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.

New York State Learning 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 New York

In the New York State Learning Standards, this is unit 4 of 8 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: New York State Education Department (NYSED)

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?

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

  2. Question 2

    A kitten looks like its…

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

  3. Question 3

    A baby monkey holds on to its…

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

  4. Question 4

    Young and parent dogs both have…

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

  5. Question 5

    A puppy cries. What does its mother do?

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

  6. Question 6

    A rose bush and its young plant are…

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

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