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Family Records in the Living Collections Gallery

Use science museum records to compare young guinea pigs and maple plants with their parents and explain similarities and differences.

Grade 1ScienceInteractive · Printable

Aligned to1-LS3-1

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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 use records to compare features of young plants and animals with their parents.
  • Students explain with observations that young plants and animals resemble, but do not exactly match, their parents.

How to use

Read the passages and record tables aloud. Help children follow each row, then let them compare features, explain evidence, and draw a plant family.

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 Records in the Living Collections Gallery

Compare young plants and animals with their parents.

The Guinea Pig Records

Listen as an adult reads. Use the records to answer each question.

A Keeper's Notes

Nia visits the science museum's Living Collections Gallery. She reads a keeper's family records. The keeper knows that these two pups belong to this parent. A pup is a young guinea pig. The keeper looked at fur and counted brown patches. The records describe what the keeper saw that day. Use the rows to compare each pup with its parent.

Animal | Fur length | Fur colors | Brown patches
Parent | Short | Brown and white | 4
Pup A | Short | Brown and white | 2
Pup B | Short | Brown and white | 5
1.
How do Pup A's fur colors compare with the parent's?
  • A. Pup A has brown fur without white.
  • B. Pup A has white fur without brown.
  • C. Both have brown and white fur.
  • D. Both have brown and black fur.

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