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Young Ones and Their Parents is a free printable Grade 1 science worksheet on using observations of families to show young plants and animals are like their parents, aligned to NGSS performance expectation 1-LS3-1. It prints 7 questions with an answer key on its own sheet of paper, in 25 versions that each ask different questions, so no two students in the class work from the same page. Print it from the browser or download it as a PDF — no account, no email.

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Young Ones and Their Parents

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Young Ones and Their Parents

What the class noticed from photographs of four animal families. WHAT WE NOTICED Puppy: same shape as its mother, much smaller, one white paw she has not Duckling: yellow fluff, mother has brown feathers, same beak shape Foal: long legs like its mother, a white blaze she has not Kitten: same ears as its mother, striped where she is plain All four photographs were taken at a farm park.

  1. 1. What does this record not tell you?
  2. 2. What did the puppy have that its mother did not?
  3. 3. Why does the foal have long legs like its mother?
  4. 4. What was true of all four young animals?
2.A seed from a red tomato grows. What fruit will the new plant most likely have?
  • A.Apples
  • B.Strawberries
  • C.Tomatoes, like the parent plant
3.Seedlings grown from an oak's acorns all have wavy-edged leaves like the oak. What does that show?
  • A.Young plants are like the plant they came from
  • B.The seedlings are oak trees already
  • C.All leaves are wavy
4.A seedling's leaves are the same shape as its parent's but smaller. What is the same, and what is different?
  • A.Everything is the same
  • B.Nothing is the same
  • C.The shape is the same and the size is different
5.Two seedlings from the same sunflower are different heights. What does that show?
  • A.Young plants are like their parent but not exactly the same
  • B.One is not a sunflower
  • C.They are different kinds of plant
6.How could you show that young plants are like their parents?
  • A.Ask which plant is the prettiest
  • B.Look at one leaf only
  • C.Grow seeds from one plant and compare the seedlings with it
7.One seedling from a packet of white flowers has a pale pink flower. Is it still like its parents?
  • A.No, it has no parents
  • B.Yes, in most ways, though not exactly
  • C.No, it is a new kind of plant

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Answer key — Young Ones and Their Parents

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  1. 1.1. It does not tell you what the fathers looked like. 2. One white paw. 3. Young animals get their features from their parents. 4. Each was like its parent in some ways and different in others.
  2. 2.Tomatoes, like the parent plant
  3. 3.Young plants are like the plant they came from
  4. 4.The shape is the same and the size is different
  5. 5.Young plants are like their parent but not exactly the same
  6. 6.Grow seeds from one plant and compare the seedlings with it
  7. 7.Yes, in most ways, though not exactly

Last reviewed 2026-09-05. Aligned to 1-LS3-1 of the Next Generation Science Standards.