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Why do baby ducks follow their mother?
Plant & Animal Superpowers Unit | Lesson 3 of 7

Why do baby ducks follow their mother?

Plant & Animal Superpowers Unit | Lesson 3 of 7
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# Optional Activity: What’s Going On?

Now that you’ve seen how the mother duck helps her ducklings, take a look at these videos. Can you figure out what’s going on in each one?

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# Extensions

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Grade 1

Plant & Animal Structures And Survival

Animal Behavior & Offspring Survival

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In this Read-Along lesson, Juan Carlos visits his grandmother who has a backyard full of ducks. The lesson includes a short exercise where students get moving by acting like ducks. If you want to extend the lesson, you can try this optional activity, What’s Going On?, where students watch videos and discover ways that animal parents help their offspring.

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Grade 1

Plant & Animal Structures And Survival

Animal Behavior & Offspring Survival

1-LS1-2

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