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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 is the same about the duckling and its mother?
  2. 2. What does this record not tell you?
  3. 3. What was true of all four young animals?
  4. 4. Why does the foal have long legs like its mother?
2.A seed from a red tomato grows. What fruit will the new plant most likely have?
  • A.Tomatoes, like the parent plant
  • B.Strawberries
  • C.Apples
3.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
4.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
5.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
6.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
7.Ten pea plants grow from one packet. What is true of all ten?
  • A.They all grow pea pods, though some grow taller
  • B.Each grows a different fruit
  • 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. The same beak shape. 2. It does not tell you what the fathers looked like. 3. Each was like its parent in some ways and different in others. 4. Young animals get their features from their parents.
  2. 2.Tomatoes, like the parent plant
  3. 3.Young plants are like their parent but not exactly the same
  4. 4.Young plants are like the plant they came from
  5. 5.Grow seeds from one plant and compare the seedlings with it
  6. 6.From the holly plant its seed came from
  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.