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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. Why does the foal have long legs like its mother?
  2. 2. What would you expect a lamb to look like?
  3. 3. What does this record not tell you?
  4. 4. What was true of all four young animals?
2.Two seedlings from the same sunflower are different heights. What does that show?
  • A.They are different kinds of plant
  • B.One is not a sunflower
  • C.Young plants are like their parent but not exactly the same
3.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
4.One seedling from a packet of white flowers has a pale pink flower. Is it still like its parents?
  • A.Yes, in most ways, though not exactly
  • B.No, it is a new kind of plant
  • C.No, it has no parents
5.A seedling's leaves are the same shape as its parent's but smaller. What is the same, and what is different?
  • A.Nothing is the same
  • B.Everything is the same
  • C.The shape is the same and the size is different
6.How could you show that young plants are like their parents?
  • A.Ask which plant is the prettiest
  • B.Grow seeds from one plant and compare the seedlings with it
  • C.Look at one leaf only
7.A daisy seed lands in a lawn. What will grow from it?
  • A.A daisy, like the plant that made the seed
  • B.Grass
  • C.A tree

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Answer key — Young Ones and Their Parents

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

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