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A Reach Tool for the Dress-Up Nook

Use elephant trunks and pea tendrils as models for a classroom reach tool. Plan a design and compare test results.

Grade 1ScienceInteractive · Printable

Aligned to1-LS1-1

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  • Single worksheet
  • Auto-graded online
  • 1 NGSS standard
  • Printable answer key
  • 13 questions
  • Classroom-ready

Details

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

About this worksheet

What students practice

  • Students connect elephant trunks and pea tendrils to reaching, gripping, and support.
  • Students use outside-part features to design a tool that solves a classroom problem.
  • Students compare test results to choose and improve a tool design.

How to use

Read the passage and questions aloud. Let students describe their designs before drawing. Read the graph together, and accept a dictated explanation for the final response.

Curriculum

NGSS standard covered

1-LS1-1

Use how plants and animals use their outside parts to survive to design a solution to a human problem.

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A Reach Tool for the Dress-Up Nook

Use ideas from living things to plan and test a tool.

Notice Nature's Tools

Listen to the passage. Think about what each outside part helps a living thing do.

The Hat Behind the Box

In our classroom dress-up nook, soft hats have cloth loops. A hat slips behind a low box. Hands do not fit in the narrow gap. Its loop is too far back to reach. We need a tool to lift it.

An elephant uses its long trunk to reach food. It curls the tip around food and brings it to its mouth.

A pea plant has thin parts called tendrils. They curl around a support and hold the plant up as it grows toward light.

We have cardboard, paper, and tape for our tool.

1.
Match each outside part to the job in the passage.
  1. Elephant trunk
  2. Pea tendril
  1. A. Holds the plant on a support
  2. B. Reaches and grips food
2.
How are the trunk tip and the tendril alike?
  • A. Both grow toward light.
  • B. Both bring food to a mouth.
  • C. Both curl around something.
  • D. Both hold up a plant.

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