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Animal Parents and Their Young | Hero Elementary™

Classroom Resource Information

Title:

Animal Parents and Their Young | Hero Elementary™

URL:

https://aptv.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/animal-parents-and-their-young-media-gallery/hero-elementary/

Content Source:

PBS

Type:

Learning Activity

Overview:

In these Hero Elementary activities, children learn that animals have offspring that are very much—but not exactly—like their parents. This includes humans too! Children observe and describe how animal parents and babies are alike and not alike, and they look for patterns.

Content Standard(s):

Science
SC2015 (2015)
Grade: 1

7 ) Make observations to identify the similarities and differences of offspring to their parents and to other members of the same species (e.g., flowers from the same kind of plant being the same shape, but differing in size; dog being same breed as parent, but differing in fur color or pattern).

NAEP Framework

NAEP Statement::
L4.6: Plants and animals closely resemble their parents.

Unpacked Content

Scientific And Engineering Practices:

Constructing Explanations and Designing Solutions

Crosscutting Concepts: Patterns

Disciplinary Core Idea: Heredity: Inheritance and Variation of Traits

Evidence Of Student Attainment:

Students:

Make observations, firsthand or from media, to identify similarities and differences of plant and animal parents to their offspring.

Teacher Vocabulary:

identify
observation
similarities
differences
offspring
parents
members
species
evidence
pattern

Knowledge:

Students know:

Young animals are very much, but not exactly, like their parents.
Plants are very much, but not exactly, like their parents.

Skills:

Students are able to:

Use observations as evidence to identify similarities and differences between parents and offspring and between offspring and other members of the same species.

Understanding:

Students understand that:

Patterns can be used as evidence that individuals of the same kind of plant or animal are recognizable as similar but can also vary in many ways.

AMSTI Resources:

AMSTI Module:
Organisms, STC
Wild Feet, ETA/hand2mind

Alabama Alternate Achievement Standards

AAS Standard:
SCI.AAS.1.7-Identify similarities and differences between parents and offspring in animals.

Tags:

animals, heredity, offspring, parents, young

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Author:

Stephanie Carver

ALEX Classroom Resource

Animal Parents and Their Young | Hero Elementary™