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How can you help a lost baby animal find its parents?
Animal Superpowers Unit | Lesson 1 of 5

How can you help a lost baby animal find its parents?

Animal Superpowers Unit | Lesson 1 of 5
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DISCUSS:
What do you see about the mother and baby that is the same?
What do you see that is different?
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DISCUSS:
How would you match these baby animals with their parents?
What did you notice that helped you match them?
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Check out this baby eagle and adult eagle.
DISCUSS: Which traits stay the SAME? Which traits CHANGE?
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DISCUSS:

Some traits of baby birds change as they grow.

So, how could you match a baby bird with its parent?

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Find a partner.
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Let’s do a practice round together.
Discuss.
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Here’s what we noticed.
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Get your supplies.
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Challenge #1: Open your envelope that is labeled “A.”
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Here are three adult birds that also live in the forest. Talk with your
partner about which of these you think may be the parent of the
baby bird that Brenda found.
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Circle the traits of the baby bird that helped you match it to an adult
bird.
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Here’s what we noticed.
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Challenge #2: Open your envelope that is labeled “B.”
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Here are three adult birds that also live near the lake. Talk with your
partner about which of these adult birds you think may be the parent
of the baby bird.
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Circle the traits of the baby bird that helped you match it to an adult bird.
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Here’s what we noticed.
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Challenge #3: Open your envelope that is labeled “C.”
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Here are three adult birds that also live in the town. Talk with your
partner about which of these adult birds you think may be the parent
of the baby bird.
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Circle the traits of the baby bird that helped you match it to an adult
bird.
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Here’s what we noticed.
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Discuss:
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animal


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a living thing that needs to eat other living things
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offspring


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babies
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wildlife


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animals and plants in nature
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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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observe


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to pay close attention to something
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identify


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to figure out what or who something is
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evidence


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information that can be used to support or reject an idea
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Lesson narration:

Grade 1

Animal Traits & Survival

Parent & Offspring Traits

1-LS3-1

Activity Prep

Print Prep

In this lesson, students make observations of baby animals and their parents, gathering evidence that they look similar because they share many of the same traits. In the activity, Baby Bird Rescue, students help identify lost baby birds based on observations of their specific traits.

Preview activity

Exploration

16 mins

Wrap-Up

4 mins

Grade 1

Animal Traits & Survival

Parent & Offspring Traits

1-LS3-1

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