(upbeat music) - Oh, hey, guys.

I was just looking at some pictures from our last family vacation.

I love to look at pictures of my kids and hang them in my home.

My children and I share a lot of similar traits.

Those traits or characteristics are things that have been handed down.

They're inherited.

And you can get traits from your parents or your grandparents or other ancestors.

Those are family, relatives that are older than grandparents.

I've got a picture here of my children: Maddie, Jude, and Lucy.

Let's take a look at the traits that they have that are similar.

What do you notice?

I see that they all have light-colored eyes.

That's something they inherited from me.

You can see Maddie's big, beautiful dimples.

She's known for those dimples.

She gets those from me, and I got them from my father.

Jude and Lucy have dimples too if they smile hard enough.

Maddie and Jude have light hair like I do.

Lucy has darker hair that's more like her father's.

So you can see, we all have similarities and we all have differences.

That's how inherited traits work.

They're passed down from generation to generation.

And sometimes you get traits from your mother, sometimes you get traits from your father, sometimes it skips generations, and sometimes it skips more than one generation.

What about your family?

Do you and your parents or your siblings, or even your grandparents or aunts and uncles share any inherited traits?

Your investigative assignment today, scientist, is to think about the traits that you inherited from your family.

What I want you to do is draw a picture of a family member, and draw a picture of yourself.

Be sure to include all of the important details.

And then you're gonna make a list of three similarities and three differences between you and that family member.

I can't wait to see your artwork.

I'm sure it's going to be amazing.

Thank you so much for learning with me today, scientist.

I can't wait to see you again next time.

Until then, remember, never stop exploring and never stop discovering.

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