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1st grade · Science · Unit 7 of 11

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.

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) teks student expectation: 1.13(C) · how young animals 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 Texas

In the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS), this is unit 7 of 11 in 1st grade Science, after How Things Move and before Hot & Cold Changes.

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: Texas Education Agency (TEA)

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 puppy cries. What does its mother do?

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

  2. Question 2

    Which baby looks most like a cow?

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

  3. Question 3

    Why does a mother deer hide her fawn?

    • To keep it safe
    • To lose it
    • To feed a wolf
    • To play a game

  4. Question 4

    How are you like your family?

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

  5. Question 5

    How does a baby kangaroo stay safe?

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

  6. Question 6

    A baby elephant stays close to the herd. Why?

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

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