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Why do family members look alike?
Plant & Animal Superpowers Unit | Lesson 5 of 7
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Why do family members look alike?

Plant & Animal Superpowers Unit | Lesson 5 of 7
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# Optional Activity: Matchup Game

In this game, you match animal mothers to their babies. Here's how to play with a group:

  1. Each person gets an envelope.
  2. Open your envelope and look for your match: mothers find their babies and babies find their mothers.
  3. When everyone has found a match, show them to the rest of the class.

See the Extensions at the end of this lesson for variations on the game.

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observe


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to pay close attention to something
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trait


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something you can observe about a living thing, such as the pointy beak of a bird
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“Love the live action video to reinforce the story!”
· Maggie · Teacher
“Students were engaged with the story. They LOVED the videos. It taught them about inherited traits at a child friendly level.”
· Alexandra · Teacher
“The best part was the matching activity. The students had fun making animal sounds while trying to find an animal adult and baby.”
· Antonio · Teacher
“The read a-long was great!! We did a lot of stopping to discuss other animals and family features:)”
· April · Teacher
“Students read along out loud, and they were engaged in the ideas. ”
· Sarah · Teacher
“The match up game was a lot of fun. The students loved the videos - especially the shrews.”
· Julia · Teacher
“The students love that there are videos within the story. We loved reading and discussing this book.”
· Candy · Teacher
“This lesson sparked great conversation! The students had a good time thinking about where their ears, eyes, nose, and mouths came from!”
· Kelly · Teacher
“Interactive video, age appropriate activities. ”
· Michael · Teacher
“Great way to introduce hereditary traits!”
· · Teacher
“I liked that it got them moving!”
· Carly · Teacher
“The kids really began to understand where children/offspring get their traits from. It helped clear up a lot of misconceptions. They also applied the lesson to themselves and discussed in what ways they look like their parents.”
· Audrey · Teacher
“Loved it! Lots of discussion about whom they look like and reasons why.”
· Mavie · Teacher
Lesson narration:
English Spanish

Grade 1

Plant & Animal Structures And Survival

Inheritance & Variation of Traits

1-LS3-1

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In this Read-Along lesson, Amy notices that baby animals look a lot like the adults in their families—and then discovers that she does, too! The lesson includes a short exercise where students get moving by acting like farm animals. You can extend the lesson with the optional activity, Matchup Game, where students work together to match pictures of animals with their babies.
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Baby Animal Cards (Grayscale) printout
Alternatively, you can print our Color version. 		Print 5 copies
Parent Animal Cards (Grayscale) printout
Alternatively, you can print our Color version. 		Print 1 copy
Envelopes
30 envelopes
Prep Instructions

Print enough picture cards so that each student can have a parent animal or a baby animal. We suggest printing one copy of the parent animal cards and enough baby animals for the rest of the class since many babies can group with the same parent. If you have 30 students, you’ll need all 6 parent animal pictures and 24 assorted baby animal pictures. For homeschool or small classes, print out one of copy of each page, cut out the cards, and have students match mothers and babies. Cut out the pictures and put each one in its own envelope to distribute to your students.

Grade 1

Plant & Animal Structures And Survival

Inheritance & Variation of Traits

1-LS3-1

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