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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. Why does the foal have long legs like its mother?
  3. 3. What did the puppy have that its mother did not?
  4. 4. What would you expect a lamb to look like?
2.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
3.How could you show that young plants are like their parents?
  • A.Grow seeds from one plant and compare the seedlings with it
  • B.Ask which plant is the prettiest
  • C.Look at one leaf only
4.A young holly bush has prickly leaves. Where did it get them from?
  • A.From the wind
  • B.From the holly plant its seed came from
  • C.From the soil
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.Ten pea plants grow from one packet. What is true of all ten?
  • A.They all grow pea pods, though some grow taller
  • B.They are all exactly the same
  • C.Each grows a different fruit
7.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

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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. Young animals get their features from their parents. 3. One white paw. 4. Like its mother in shape, with some features of its own.
  2. 2.Tomatoes, like the parent plant
  3. 3.Grow seeds from one plant and compare the seedlings with it
  4. 4.From the holly plant its seed came from
  5. 5.Young plants are like their parent but not exactly the same
  6. 6.They all grow pea pods, though some grow taller
  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.