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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 does this record not tell you?
  2. 2. What did the puppy have that its mother did not?
  3. 3. What was true of all four young animals?
  4. 4. What is the same about the duckling and its mother?
2.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
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.Why do baby plants and baby animals both look like their parents?
  • A.They choose how to look
  • B.Young living things get their features from their parents
  • C.They copy their parents on purpose
5.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
6.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
7.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

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Answer key — Young Ones and Their Parents

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  1. 1.1. It does not tell you what the fathers looked like. 2. One white paw. 3. Each was like its parent in some ways and different in others. 4. The same beak shape.
  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 living things get their features from their parents
  5. 5.Young plants are like the plant they came from
  6. 6.Young plants are like their parent but not exactly the same
  7. 7.They all grow pea pods, though some grow taller

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