Grade 1 Science Weeks 13–14: Student Practice Workbook
Write your name and date on printed work. Each lesson includes its own fictional record or picture description; no separate textbook is required to answer the questions. Use a notebook for drawings. Do not touch unfamiliar animals, electrical parts, glass, or the Sun.
Week 13: Features that help animals
Day 61: Shells and coverings
Practice record (fictional, supplied for this day): Practice record: A snail has a hard shell. A rabbit has fur. A pigeon has feathers.
- Which animal has a hard shell?
- Which animal has fur?
- How might a hard shell help a snail stay safe?
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Day 62: Feet, claws, and grips
Practice record (fictional, supplied for this day): Practice cards: Duck, webbed feet, swims. Monkey, gripping hands and feet, climbs. Horse, hooves, runs on ground.
- Which card shows webbed feet?
- Which animal climbs using gripping parts?
- How could webbed feet help a duck move through water?
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Day 63: Beaks and eating
Practice record (fictional, supplied for this day): Practice record: Bird A has a long beak and reaches into a flower. Bird B has a wide, flat bill and gathers food in shallow water.
- Which bird reaches into a flower?
- Which bird has a flat bill?
- Why might a long beak work better than a wide flat bill for reaching food deep in a flower?
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Day 64: Match feature to need
Practice record (fictional, supplied for this day): Practice chart: Otter, thick fur, stays warm in cold water. Deer, long legs, moves across a field. Woodpecker, sturdy beak, taps wood.
- What feature belongs to the otter?
- What action is listed for the deer?
- If the water became cold, how might thick fur help the otter?
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Day 65: Independent external-features check
Practice record (fictional, supplied for this day): New check: Animal X is a beaver with broad tail used while swimming. Animal Y is a hedgehog with stiff spines that help protect its body.
- Which animal uses its tail while swimming?
- Which animal has spines?
- How might the hedgehog’s spines help when another animal comes close?
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Week 14: Safe homes for young animals
Day 66: Shelter is a need
Practice record (fictional, supplied for this day): Story A: A parent bird places its chicks in a nest above the ground.
- Where are the chicks?
- Is the nest above or below ground in this story?
- How might a nest above the ground keep chicks safer?
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Day 67: Carrying young to safety
Practice record (fictional, supplied for this day): Story B: A duck walks with four ducklings from an open path toward tall grass.
- How many ducklings walk with the adult?
- Where does the group move?
- Why might tall grass be safer for the ducklings than an open path?
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Day 68: Warmth and closeness
Practice record (fictional, supplied for this day): Practice picture description: Two chicks stand beneath the wings of a hen. One chick stands beside the hen.
- How many chicks are described in total?
- How many chicks are beneath the wings?
- Why might chicks stay close beneath a hen’s wings on a cool day?
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Day 69: Compare two care stories
Practice record (fictional, supplied for this day): Practice chart: Row A, adult penguin shelters chick beside its body. Row B, parent squirrel shelters two young in a tree hollow.
- Where are the squirrels’ young sheltered?
- How many young squirrels are listed?
- How do the penguin and squirrel adults both help their young even though they use different shelters?
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Day 70: Independent shelter check
Practice record (fictional, supplied for this day): New record: A parent raccoon moves three young into a hollow log before rain. Later the three young remain inside the log.
- How many young raccoons are there?
- What shelter do they use?
- Why might the hollow log be useful when rain begins?
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