• Quick retrieval from earlier learning (Match animals to their young). Students answer on mini whiteboards.
• Show answers together and note who needs support in the main task.

1. What is the young of this animal called: butterfly? (duckling / caterpillar / cub / chick) → caterpillarPrompt: Think of farm animals, pets and wild animals you know.
2. A cygnet grows up to become which animal? (goat / bear / sheep / swan) → swanPrompt: Young animals grow into adults of the same kind.
3. Which young animal hatches from an egg? (a puppy / a calf / a kitten / a chick) → a chickPrompt: Which group of animals lays eggs with hard shells?

• Show a picture of an unusual animal and ask where it might live and how it survives there.
• Share the objective: How animal parents help their young survive. Read the success criteria together.

• Work through the example out loud, saying why you do each step, not just what you do.
• Example: How is this parent helping its young: an elephant herd circling around a calf?
• Step 1: The parent keeps the young safe from danger or cold.
• Step 2: So the answer is: protecting
• Answer: protecting
• Pause after each step and ask a student to say what comes next.

• Do these together. Students try each step on whiteboards before you reveal it.
• Use the hints as prompts rather than giving the answer.

1. How is this parent helping its young: a cow letting her calf drink milk? (feeding / protecting / teaching) → feedingPrompt: Is the parent giving food, keeping the young safe, or showing it how to do something?
2. A human baby cries in the night. What is it doing? (telling everyone to go to sleep / practising singing / telling a parent it needs something, like food or comfort / nothing; crying has no meaning) → telling a parent it needs something, like food or comfortPrompt: Babies cannot talk yet.

• Students work on the student sheet. Circulate and check the first two answers of every student early.
• Students who finish: write a question of their own for a partner, with the answer.

The 6 questions are on the student sheet below, with answers in the key.

• Two questions on their own. Sort answers into got it / nearly / not yet to plan the next lesson.

1. True or false? Some young animals are never looked after by their parents. (True / False) → TruePrompt: Think about feeding, protecting and teaching.
2. Baby birds open their beaks wide and cheep loudly. Why? (to tell their parents they are hungry / to scare away their parents / to practise flying / to cool down) → to tell their parents they are hungryPrompt: What does the parent do when it hears the cheeping?

Free online practice with hints and printable worksheets for this skill: eurekami.com/science/grade-1.