Growing, offspring and traits
Answers are for parents and teachers.
1
Draw your own timeline with four things you can do now and the ages you learned them. Which one took the most practice?
Answers differ. Check that the ages are in order and the skills are real.
2
Match each parent with its offspring: hen, cat, dog and chick, puppy, kitten.
Hen–chick, cat–kitten, dog–puppy.
3
A litter of 6 kittens has 4 with stripes. How many have no stripes?
6 − 4 = 2 kittens.
4
Write two traits a zebra inherits and one thing that is not inherited.
For example: stripes and strong teeth are inherited; a scar from a fall is not.
5
Look at three leaves of one kind. Write one way they are alike and one way they differ.
Answers differ, for example: alike in shape; different in length.