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Noor's Desert Trail Family Journal

Use a desert trail journal and leaf-count graph to explain how young plants and animals resemble, but differ from, their parents.

Grade 1ScienceInteractive · Printable

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Format: Interactive · Printable
Grade: Grade 1
Subject: Science
Question types: Fill in the blank, Multiple choice, Matching, Circle the answer, Short answer

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What students practice

Students identify features that young plants and animals share with their parents.
Students use observations and a graph to describe ways young living things differ from their parents.
Students support a comparison of a young living thing and its parent with evidence.

How to use

Read Noor's field journal aloud, study the leaf-count graph together, and have students point to journal evidence before answering.

Curriculum

NGSS standard covered

1-LS3-1

Explain that young plants and animals are like, but not exactly like, their parents.

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Noor's Desert Trail Family Journal

Use field notes and a graph to compare young living things with their parents.

Read Noor's field journal

Listen to Noor's notes from a desert botanical trail. Use the notes to answer the questions.

Three Days on the Trail

Day 1: Noor watched a desert cottontail and two young rabbits near a creosote bush. The parent and both young rabbits had long ears and brown fur. Kit A had a small dark patch on one ear. Kit B had a white spot on its chest. The parent had neither of those markings.

Day 2: Noor looked at a desert willow family. The parent willow and two young willows all had green, pointed leaves. The parent had 9 leaves in the small branch Noor counted. Young Willow A had 5 leaves, and Young Willow B had 7 leaves.

Day 3: Noor wrote, “I will compare each young rabbit and each young willow with its parent.”