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Hello everyone, I'm going to be starting my student teaching very soon and I was curious if anyone had any ideas on making heredity and reproduction more fun for students. We will be stressing punnett squares for almost a months time, and they can get very repetitive and almost annoying for some students as my cooperating teacher has pointed out. If anyone has done any activities pertaining to heredity, reproduction, or punnett squares that really helped the student grasp the material any pointers would be great!
Thank you so much!
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Hi there!
Good luck in your student teaching! I love heredity and genetics, and I feel like I can spend all year on It! There are so many cool hereditary projects on the web. My favorites are Harry potter genetics, alien genetics and paper babies. Google is such a great resource!
Also check out science spot. You could teach your whole year with the resources available there for you!
Good luck!Angel
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There are some great activities on Mystery Science web site. It is designed for k-7 but you might be able to adapt it to higher grades. My 5th graders did one called "Can selection happen without people?" I believe you can try out the website for free for a period of time.
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Hello Rachel.
The BioInteractive has great activity to start with the Heredity. I like the Biology of Skin Color and Got Lactate activities. I'm not on Genetics unit yet, but I will definitely try those.
Good luck!
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Thank you for your insight Joselyn! I will look into those activities!
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I, too, find this a very interesting unit for students! I love the http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/ site. My students really enjoy that I bring in my family's history of colorblindness after discussing Queen Victoria's family history of hemophilia. (I have them make predictions about whether or not my children could be color blind.) As an assessment, I have them take on the role of a genetics counselor, counseling a couple about the probability of their child having hemophilia, and what blood types the baby would possibly have. I can't seem to upload the file but would be happy to share via email. Good luck student teaching!
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Hello! Yes I agree the http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/ site is also great. I've that for my Bridge projects and my students works on the simulation of fruit flies eyes and wings.
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This is awesome, thank you so much for the reply, I will look into the site that you have posted!
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Thank you so much for the reply Laura! I will be looking into these activities!
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I am a student teacher and I am planning a unit in Genetics. One lab I have found that connects the inheritance of traits to probability and parents is found here: https://www.biologycorner.com/worksheets/variations_on_a_human_face.html#.U5cw47HD_cs
Students work in pairs and flip coins. Each student flips a coin and whether they land on heads or tails is what determines which allele they contribute to their person's face. They then get to draw their person with all of the traits they inherited. It also addresses genotype and phenotype.
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