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Mother and Foal Watch

Use a class video investigation to find patterns in how mother horses and foals act to get food and stay dry.

Grade 1ScienceInteractive · Printable

Aligned to1-LS1-2

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13 questions
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Format: Interactive · Printable
Grade: Grade 1
Subject: Science
Question types: Multiple choice, Circle the answer, Sorting, Short answer

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What students practice

Students identify repeated behaviors of mother horses and their foals.
Students use observations to explain how parent and young behaviors help foals get food and stay dry.

How to use

Read the investigation and questions aloud. Revisit the observation notes as students choose answers and explain one pattern.

Curriculum

NGSS standard covered

1-LS1-2

Find patterns in how parents and their young behave that help the young survive.

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Mother and Foal Watch

Look for patterns in horse families.

Watch for a Pattern

Listen to the class investigation. Use the notes to answer.

The Paddock Camera

A class watches farm videos of two horse families in a paddock, a fenced field. Fern and Rose are mother horses. Each has a foal, a young horse.

Step 1: Watch each family in the morning. Step 2: Record what the mother and foal do. Step 3: Repeat on two more mornings. The class changes the day it watches, but watches the same families. No one changes what the horses do.

On each morning, Fern's foal nudges her side with its nose. Fern stands still. The foal drinks her milk. Rose's foal nudges her side, too. Rose stands still, and her foal drinks milk.

What does a foal's nudge seem to tell its mother?