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Learning Resource Type

Classroom Resource

Whom Does He Look Like?

Subject Area

Science

Grade(s)

1

Overview

The teacher will present an informational fiction text from the website, ReadWorks. The students and teacher can interact with this non-fiction text by annotating the text digitally. The students will answer the questions associated with the article as an assessment. This learning activity would be useful to introduce students to the concept parents and their offspring have similarities and differences in their appearance.

    Science (2015) Grade(s): 1

    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).

    Unpacked Content

    Unpacked Content

    UP:SC15.1.7

    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.

    Scientific and Engineering Practices

    Constructing Explanations and Designing Solutions

    Crosscutting Concepts

    Patterns
    Identify similarities and differences between parents and offspring in animals.

    Unpacked Content

    Unpacked Content

    UP:SC15.1.7

    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.

    Scientific and Engineering Practices

    Constructing Explanations and Designing Solutions

    Crosscutting Concepts

    Patterns
    Link to Resource

    CR Resource Type

    Learning Activity

    Resource Provider

    Other

    Resource Provider other

    ReadWorks.org
    Accessibility
    License

    License Type

    CUSTOM
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