Hi, everyone.

Thank you for coming to join me in today's lesson.

I'm Mrs. Horan, and together we are going to be learning all about young animals.

Today's lesson is part of the unit on new life.

This lesson is called young animals, and we will be learning all about the similarities and differences between young animals and their parents.

The outcome for our lesson today is to match animal offspring to their parents.

This lesson builds on what you already know about different types of animals and is part of our big learning question, how do living things grow and reproduce? There are five keywords in our lesson today.

We'll take a quick look at them now, and I'd like you to have a go at saying them with me, so we'll do my turn, your turn for each one.

Are you ready? My turn, animal.

Your turn.

My turn, young.

Your turn.

My turn, offspring.

Your turn.

My turn, parent.

Your turn.

And our last one.

My turn, observe.

Your turn.

Fantastic.

Now we'll have a really good look at each of these words as we come to them in the lesson, so don't worry if you're not too sure about any of them now.

We'll have plenty of time to get to grips with them later on.

Our lesson today is divided into two parts.

Let's get started with our first part, animals and their offspring.

Lots of different animals live in the world around us.

You can see the word animals there is one of our keywords for today.

Let's practise saying it.

My turn, animals.

Your turn.

Great.

We know already that an animal is a living thing which moves and eats other animals or plants.

Let's take a look at some animals and see if you can name any of them.

This animal is a type of bird that you might have seen in parks or gardens.

Do you know what it's called? Its colour is a clue.

This animal is a blue tit.

Our next animal is a type of amphibian.

These animals live around bodies of water like ponds.

Do you know what they are called? That's right, this one is a frog.

Now, our final animal.

This one is a mammal with lots of spikes.

They like to live in forests and woodland, and you might not have seen one yourself because they are nocturnal, so they only come out when it's dark in the evening and at nighttime.

Do you know what they're called? Great, this is a hedgehog.

These are all animals that live in the UK.

So we know what they're called and where they live, but do you know where do animals come from? Animals, including humans, have babies.

Have you heard that word, humans, before? We are humans and we are a type of animal.

Just like other animals, humans have babies.

These babies are often called an animal's young.

Let's have a go at saying that keyword together.

My turn, young.

Your turn.

Great.

Now we can see some animals with their young here.

There is a human mother and baby, and a sheep with its lamb.

For many animals there is a special name for their young, like baby for humans and lamb for sheep.

Can you name any other young animals? Perhaps you know the name for young dogs or cats, or maybe other animals that live on farms. Offspring are the young of an animal, so that word, offspring, can be used to talk about animals' young in general.

It's not specific to any animal.

Thinking about the animals we just looked at, human offspring are called babies, and sheep offspring are called lambs.

Shall we have a go at saying that word? My turn, offspring.

Your turn.

Fantastic.

Let's have a look at the offspring of some other animals.

The offspring of a cat is called a kitten.

Did you know that one already? The offspring of a koala is called a cub.

I didn't know that one before, did you? Let's see how we're doing with a quick check for understanding.

Do you think this is true or false: Animals, including humans, have babies? What do you think? That statement is true.

Animals, including humans, do have babies.

Now, can you explain why you think this? Is it because A, animals have babies which grow into adults, or B, because animals have babies which are called adults? If you need a bit of thinking time, pause the video here to have a go and then come back when you're ready.

Were you able to explain why it's true? It's true because animals have babies which grow into adults.

Now for a question about some of the vocabulary we have learned today.

You need to choose the best word to finish this sentence.

The word we use for the young of an animal is, do you think it's A, mother, B, offspring, or C, adult? The word we use for the young of an animal is B, offspring.

Let's have another go at saying that word again together because it's a really important one for today.

Are you ready? My turn, offspring.

Your turn.

Great, I think you're ready to take on a task now.

There are two parts to this task.

First, draw a picture of a young animal with its mother or father, so you will need to draw a young animal and its parent.

You can choose any animal you want.

It can be an animal you have a pet, or your favourite animal of all, or any other animal.

Label the parent and the offspring in your drawing.

Make sure you use those words, parent and offspring.

We've talked a lot about the word offspring in today's lesson, but we haven't thought about that word parent yet.

Do you know what it means? The parent of an animal is the animal that it came from, it's mother or father.

Should we have a go at saying that keyword together? Okay, my turn, parent.

Your turn.

Well done.

So we are ready to label both the parent and the offspring in our drawings.

While you're working, think about how you know which is which.

You can see a parent and their offspring in the picture there.

I bet you know which is the parent and which is the offspring, but how do you know? What difference is there between the parent and the offspring? Pause the video here to have a go at your labelled drawing and come back when you're ready.

Hello again.

Did you enjoy drawing your pictures? Jacob and Sophia have done this task, too.

Let's see what they did.

Jacob says, "I have drawn me as a baby with my mom.

I am the offspring as I am a young version of the animal." As we know, humans are a type of animal, so you could have drawn a human parent and their offspring, like Jacob.

Sophia says, "I have drawn my dog with her puppy.

My dog is the parent because she is the older version and she gave birth to the puppy." So she knows which animal is which because she knows the parent is the older animal.

Did you think the same thing? And finally here we have a reminder that offspring means a person's child or an animal's young.

For the second part of our task today, you need to sort the animals into two groups, parent and offspring.

We know already that the older of the two animals is the parent and the younger one is the offspring.

The animals we have to sort are a horse, a cygnet, a chick, a hen, a calf, a swan, a foal, and an elephant.

Look closely at the pictures to help you decide whether each one is a parent or the offspring.

Pause the video here to have a go at sorting these animals into the two groups.

Welcome back.

How did you find that task? Did you think some of the animals were more tricky than others? Let's see where they should all be.

So for parents, we have the horse, hen, swan, and elephant, and for offspring, we have the foal, chick, cygnet, and calf.

You can see in the pictures that each of those animals looks younger than the animals in the parent group.

Let's move on to the second part of our lesson now.

Whose offspring is this? Some young animals look similar to their parents and some do not.

A baby elephant is called a calf, and it looks similar to its parents.

You might have noticed this when you were doing the sorting task earlier.

Did you know that young elephants were called calves? I didn't.

You can see an elephant with their calf in the picture there.

Can you see how the calf looks similar to its parent? It has the same shape with four legs and a trunk and it is the same colour, but it is smaller.

Are there any other animal offspring that look similar to their parents? Can you think of any other young animals that have the same shape as their parents, like the elephant in the picture there? Perhaps the animals you drew earlier look similar to each other.

A tadpole is the offspring of a frog.

Have you ever seen any tadpoles? You might have seen some in a pond or maybe even someone brought some into school for you to have a look at.

Tadpoles look very different to frogs.

Let's take a look at them.

There are some tiny tadpoles in a pond in this picture.

You can see they have round black bodies and little tails.

Now let's look at a frog.

It looks completely different to the tadpoles, doesn't it? It's a different colour, it doesn't have a tail, and it has four legs.

Lots of animals like humans and the elephant we just looked at do look similar to their parents, but not all animals.

Some like this tadpole and frog look completely different when they are young to when they're older.

Can you think of any other animal offspring that look different to their parents? Maybe there's a type of insect you know about that is a very different shape when it is young to when it's fully grown.

Let's have another quick check for understanding.

Sam and Izzy are looking at photos of animals with their offspring.

Sam finds a photo of a swan.

Who do you agree with? Sam says, "The offspring of a swan is called a cygnet.

It has grey feathers and looks very different to its parent." Izzy says, "A cygnet must have white feathers like a swan because offspring always looked like their parents." Who do you think is correct? Pause the video here if you want some thinking time or a chat with a partner about your ideas, and come back when you're ready.

What did you think? This time, Sam is correct.

You can see a swan and her cygnets in the picture here.

Can you see how they are different? There are some similarities like the shape of the animal, but there are differences too.

The cygnets are grey, unlike their mother, and their feathers are a lot fluffier.

Also, their beaks are black instead of orange like their parents' beak.

Aisha notices that some offspring look like their parents, and some do not.

She says this zebra foal has stripes just like its parent.

You can see a zebra and its offspring called a foal in the picture there.

Can you see how the offspring looks very similar to the parent, just smaller? The caterpillar is the offspring of a butterfly but looks very different.

Can you see just how different they are from each other in the pictures? The caterpillar is quite a long, thin shape with short legs and black and yellow shapes on its green body.

The butterfly's parent has beautiful wings with black, red, and blue shapes on, six long legs, and a pair of antennae on its head.

Like the frog and the tadpole, these animals look very different to each other when they are young and when they are fully grown.

When we look closely at something, we observe.

Can you see another of our keywords for today in that sentence? That's right, observe.

Let's have a go at saying it.

My turn, observe.

Your turn.

Great.

Now, observing is different to looking.

Observing means looking at something more closely, really thinking about the details you can see and what something is doing.

Sometimes we can use our other senses to observe too.

Take a look at this picture of a lion and his cub.

What do you observe? Look really closely at the details you can see and the similarities and differences between the young and old animal.

You might wanna pause the video here so you can spend some time making your observations.

Aisha has been observing this picture too.

She says, "I observed that the lion and its cub look similar because they both have brown fur, but the cub is much smaller than the lion." Did you observe the same things? Did you see anything else? Let's have another quick check for understanding.

Which of these options is the best to complete this sentence? When we observe something we.

Is it A, we look at nonfiction books? Is it B, we use a tape measure? Or is it C, we look closely at it? Which do you think is is? Great, when we observe something, we look closely at it.

You can see a scientist in the picture there carefully observing a turtle.

Aisha continues to observe different animals.

Shall we take a look at what she observes next? Now she's observing a penguin and its chick.

What do you observe about the similarities and differences between the young and old animals in this picture? Aisha observed that the penguin has black and white feathers, but the chick is different.

It has lots of grey feathers.

Did you notice that too? Did you observe anything else? You might have noticed that the young penguin is a similar shape to the adult, and that it has a beak just like the adult, but it is smaller.

What do you notice when you observe the monkey and its offspring? Remember, observing means looking closely.

Aisha has found a picture of a monkey and its offspring for us to take a look at.

Pause the video here so you have time to make some careful observations, and come back when you have noticed the similarities or differences between the young and old animals.

Did you observe that the fur was slightly different colours on the young monkey and its parent? You might also have observed that the young monkey is smaller than its parent, but it was a similar shape with two arms and two legs.

Did you observe anything else? Aisha observed some animals that look similar to each other, but these animal photos have been mixed up.

Can you help her to match the offspring with the correct parent? We have a puppy, a lamb, a sheep, and a dog.

Which parent goes with which offspring? The animals all look quite similar to each other, so you'll need to observe the photographs carefully to help you.

Pause the video now to have a go at matching the animals.

Great, let's see how you did.

The puppy belongs to the dog, and the lamb is the offspring of the sheep.

Time for our final task of the lesson.

Observe what is similar and different about these animals.

Match the animal offspring to the correct parents.

Remember, some animal offspring look very different to their parents, so you'll need to use a combination of your knowledge about animals and careful observation of the photographs.

In the parent group of animals, we have a cow, a butterfly, a crocodile, and a frog, and for offspring, we have a hatchling, a tadpole, a caterpillar, and a calf.

Pause the video here to have a go at matching the right parent to the right offspring.

Welcome back.

Did you find some animals were trickier than others? Here are the correct matching pairs.

The calf is the cow's offspring.

I found that one quite easy because the calf looks very similar to the cow, just smaller.

The tadpole goes with the frog.

I thought this one was much trickier because a tadpole looks really different to its frog parent.

Did you? The caterpillar is the butterfly's offspring.

This was another tricky one because they look so different from each other.

I remembered that I had observed caterpillars going into a pupae before, and then emerging a couple of weeks later as butterflies.

And finally, we have a crocodile and its offspring called a hatchling.

Did you know young crocodiles are called hatchlings? I didn't, but I didn't think this one was too difficult because I observed that the hatchling looked very similar to the parent crocodile, just smaller.

We've come to the end of our lesson today.

We've learned so much together.

Let's look back at the key learning from today's lesson.

Animals, including humans, have babies which are called offspring or young.

Some offspring looks similar and some offspring look different to their parents.

We can look at things closely to observe them and match offspring to their parents.

Thank you so much for coming along to today's lesson and learning all about young animals with me.

Did you learn any cool facts you can tell your families today? I can't wait to tell my friends that baby crocodiles are called hatchlings, and baby elephants are called calves.

I bet they don't already know.

Thank you for your hard work today, everyone.

I'll see you again next time.