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Family Clue Cards on a Zoo Night Tour

Use zoo night-tour records to compare young bats and ferns with their parents and judge family clue card designs.

Grade 1ScienceInteractive · Printable

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

About this worksheet

What students practice

Students compare traits of young animals and plants with traits of their parents.
Students explain that young living things can resemble parents without matching them exactly.
Students use observation records to judge a design that shows family likenesses and differences.

How to use

Read the zoo records aloud, pausing for students to point to evidence. Invite students to explain their answers with details from the records.

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 Clue Cards on a Zoo Night Tour

Use observation records to compare young living things with their parents.

Read the night-tour records

Use the records from the zoo night tour to answer the questions.

Clues from the Night Garden

The night-tour team made records at the zoo. They watched a parent fruit bat named Nova and two young bats named Pip and Sia. The team also checked a parent fern and a young fern in the night garden.

Nova had dark brown fur, pointed ears, a pale stripe on her nose, and wings that measured 32 centimeters. Pip had dark brown fur, rounded ears, a pale stripe on his nose, and wings that measured 18 centimeters. Sia had gray-brown fur, pointed ears, no pale stripe on her nose, and wings that measured 20 centimeters.

The parent fern had green fronds. Each frond had 7 leaflets. The fern was 28 centimeters tall. The young fern also had green fronds. Each frond had 5 leaflets, and the plant was 11 centimeters tall.

The team wanted to make family clue cards for visitors. The team would use the records instead of guessing from one detail.

Which feature did Nova and Pip both have?