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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 was true of all four young animals?
  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 is the same about the duckling and its mother?
2.Ten pea plants grow from one packet. What is true of all ten?
  • A.Each grows a different fruit
  • B.They all grow pea pods, though some grow taller
  • C.They are all exactly the same
3.Seedlings grown from an oak's acorns all have wavy-edged leaves like the oak. What does that show?
  • A.The seedlings are oak trees already
  • B.All leaves are wavy
  • C.Young plants are like the plant they came from
4.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
5.Two seedlings from the same sunflower are different heights. What does that show?
  • A.They are different kinds of plant
  • B.Young plants are like their parent but not exactly the same
  • C.One is not a sunflower
6.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
7.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

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Answer key — Young Ones and Their Parents

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  1. 1.1. Each was like its parent in some ways and different in others. 2. One white paw. 3. Young animals get their features from their parents. 4. The same beak shape.
  2. 2.They all grow pea pods, though some grow taller
  3. 3.Young plants are like the plant they came from
  4. 4.Grow seeds from one plant and compare the seedlings with it
  5. 5.Young plants are like their parent but not exactly the same
  6. 6.Yes, in most ways, though not exactly
  7. 7.The shape is the same and the size is different

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