Young Animals Resemble Their Parents
TEKS Objective
The student is expected to compare ways that young animals resemble their parents.
Essential Understanding
The student knows that organisms resemble their parents and have structures and processes that help them survive within their environments.
Science Background
What is Heredity? Genetic Science Learning Center (website) – What is heredity and why do children resemble their parents? These questions are answered in a narrated slide show.
What is Heredity?
Genetic Science Learning Center, learn.genetics.utah.edu
The Genetics of Inherited Traits: BioEd Online & K8Science (video) - An introduction to how traits are passed from one generation to another.
The Genetics of Inherited Traits
BioEd Online & K8Science, www.bioedonline.org
What is a Trait? Genetic Science Learning Center (website) - Each one of us has a different combination of traits that makes us unique. Learn why you share traits with your parents.
What is a Trait?
Genetic Science Learning Center, learn.genetics.utah.edu
Signature Lesson
Oh Baby! What Baby Animal Is That? Georgia Department of Education (website) – Students watch a streaming video presentation on animal parents and use flashcards to compare animal offspring to their parents.
Oh Baby! What Baby Animal Is That?
Georgia Department of Education, public.doe.k12.ga.us
- Supporting Lessons
- Extensions
- Assessment Ideas
- Literature Connections
- Related
TEKS - Additional Resources
Supporting Lessons
Changing Cicada: Science NetLink (website) – Students compare cicada offspring to their adult parents, and learn that they are very much, but not exactly, alike.
Elaboration Lessons and Extensions
Animal Families: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (PDF) – This field trip guide offers useful tips for taking children outside to observe animal parents and offspring.
Animal Families
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, www.fws.gov
Hatching Eggs in the Classroom: Texas Agriculture Extension Service (PDF) - Hatching chicken eggs in the classrooms gives students first-hand opportunities to observe and record the life cycle of chickens, and observe how chicks resemble their parents. This guide provides complete instructions.
Hatching Eggs in the Classroom
Texas Agriculture Extension Service, agrilifeextension.tamu.edu
Assessment Ideas
Use the assessment pages provided as part of the Signature Lesson to evaluate students’ understanding of the resemblance of parents and offspring.
Literature Connections
Baby Animals. Berger, Melvin (ISBN-13: 978-0545003919)
How do Animal Babies Live? Hickman Brynie, Faith (ISBN-13: 978-0766037489)
You Don’t Look Like your Mother. Fisher, Aileen Lucia (ISBN-13: 978-1586538569)
Where’s My Baby? Rey, H.A. (ISBN-13: 978-0395906965)
Does a Kangaroo Have a Mother Too? Carle, Eric (ISBN-13: 978-0064436427)
Additional Resources
Animal Teachers: National Geographic Kids (website) - Watch these videos of animal parents teaching their young important life lessons. They can be found towards the bottom of the page.
Animal Teachers
National Geographic Kids, kidsblogs.nationalgeographic.com
TEKS Navigation
Grade 1
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