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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

1-LS3-1

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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 is the same about the duckling and its mother?
  2. 2. What did the puppy have that its mother did not?
  3. 3. What claim does this record support?
  4. 4. Why does the foal have long legs like its mother?
2.A daisy seed lands in a lawn. What will grow from it?
  • A.Grass
  • B.A daisy, like the plant that made the seed
  • C.A tree
3.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.The shape is the same and the size is different
  • C.Everything is the same
4.Why do baby plants and baby animals both look like their parents?
  • A.They copy their parents on purpose
  • B.Young living things get their features from their parents
  • C.They choose how to look
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.They are different kinds of plant
  • C.One is not a sunflower
6.How could you show that young plants are like their parents?
  • A.Look at one leaf only
  • B.Grow seeds from one plant and compare the seedlings with it
  • C.Ask which plant is the prettiest
7.A seed from a red tomato grows. What fruit will the new plant most likely have?
  • A.Strawberries
  • B.Apples
  • C.Tomatoes, like the parent plant

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Answer key — Young Ones and Their Parents

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  1. 1.1. The same beak shape. 2. One white paw. 3. Young animals are like their parents but not exactly like them. 4. Young animals get their features from their parents.
  2. 2.A daisy, like the plant that made the seed
  3. 3.The shape is the same and the size is different
  4. 4.Young living things get their features from their parents
  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.Tomatoes, like the parent plant

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