Hello Everyone! I am teaching a high school biology course (I am a student teacher) and I want to do a more student-centered activity around inherited traits. I have seen all the "create your own baby" activities with flipping a coin, but I want to try a little bit more. I am sure this is a great activity. My students are on iPads so I have access to technology and the web. Thank You in advance!
There are several good apps for doing punnett squares with your students. I plan on trying out Punnett squared with my students next trimester.
My daughter's biology teacher had the students create accounts on www.sciencecourseware.org/vcise/drosophila. This site allows an online simulation of fruit fly mating. Students can select a male and female fly with various dominant, recessive, and sex-linked traits and then observe the inherited traits in the next one, two, or even more generations. The teacher will have to make an account and provide students with a class code. The teacher can monitor the student's activity on the site and can review the students' online lab notebooks. The teacher next door actually ordered fruit flies and had his students conduct live experiments on them. I don't know how much time or resources you have as a student teacher, but I hope you will find this advice helpful. Good luck!
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