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Family Clues at the Early Spring Farm

Use farm observation notes and picture cards to compare young ducklings and pea plants with their parents.

Grade 1ScienceInteractive · Printable

Aligned to1-LS3-1

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

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What students practice

Students identify ways young plants and animals resemble their parents.
Students identify ways young plants and animals differ from their parents.
Students use observations to make a careful prediction about a young living thing.

How to use

Read the farm notes aloud and study the picture cards together. Have students use the observations as evidence for each answer.

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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Family Clues at the Early Spring Farm

Compare young living things with their parents.

Sort the farm cards

Read the early spring farm notes. Use the picture cards and observations to answer the questions.

Nia's Early Spring Farm Notes

1Nia visited a farm in early spring. She watched a parent duck and a young duckling near the pond. She also looked at a parent pea plant and a young pea plant in a garden bed.

2The parent duck had brown feathers, an orange bill, and webbed feet. The duckling had yellow-brown down, an orange bill, and webbed feet. The duckling was smaller than the parent duck.

3The parent pea plant had a green stem, oval leaves, and six leaves. The young pea plant had a green stem, oval leaves, and three leaves. The young plant was shorter than the parent plant.

Sort each picture card into the family it belongs to.

Parent duck Picture of a duck