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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 did the puppy have that its mother did not?
  2. 2. What claim does this record support?
  3. 3. What would you expect a lamb to look like?
  4. 4. What does this record not tell you?
2.A young holly bush has prickly leaves. Where did it get them from?
  • A.From the holly plant its seed came from
  • B.From the soil
  • C.From the wind
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.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
5.A seedling's leaves are the same shape as its parent's but smaller. What is the same, and what is different?
  • A.The shape is the same and the size is different
  • B.Nothing is the same
  • C.Everything is the same
6.Ten pea plants grow from one packet. What is true of all ten?
  • A.They are all exactly the same
  • B.Each grows a different fruit
  • C.They all grow pea pods, though some grow taller
7.One seedling from a packet of white flowers has a pale pink flower. Is it still like its parents?
  • A.No, it is a new kind of plant
  • B.Yes, in most ways, though not exactly
  • C.No, it has no parents

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Answer key — Young Ones and Their Parents

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  1. 1.1. One white paw. 2. Young animals are like their parents but not exactly like them. 3. Like its mother in shape, with some features of its own. 4. It does not tell you what the fathers looked like.
  2. 2.From the holly plant its seed came from
  3. 3.Grow seeds from one plant and compare the seedlings with it
  4. 4.Young plants are like their parent but not exactly the same
  5. 5.The shape is the same and the size is different
  6. 6.They all grow pea pods, though some grow taller
  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.