School at Home: teacher key

Animal Families, grade 6 edition, written for 6th grade. Young animals learn from the family that raises them. See how orcas, meerkats and tigers teach their young.

Read the book. Print this page for the key.

Questions and answers

1. What do orca mothers teach their calves?
   • To build dens
   • To hunt (answer)
   • To lead herds
2. How do young tigers learn to hunt?
   • By copying their mother (answer)
   • From a silverback
   • In a pod
3. Who helps take care of an elephant calf?
   • Only the father
   • A sentry
   • Other females, not only the mother (answer)
4. Why do wolf mothers not have to leave the den with small pups?
   • The pups hunt
   • Pack members bring food (answer)
   • The den has food

Words

• dialects: group sound patterns
• sentry: lookout guard
• generations: family age groups
• pods: orca families
• helpless: unable to cope