Designing the Super Explore

by: Milton Huling and Jackie Speake Dwyer

This chapter features Life sciences StEMT lessons. Designing the Super Explore is an engineering design challenge added to an inheritance lesson. Dependent on the grade level and purpose of this lesson, students may need some background knowledge of the terms chromosome, allele, dominant, and recessive, and possibly a review of cell division. The Explore section of the lesson has students choosing from prepared bags of beads. This random sampling provides students with an understanding of how different traits develop and are expressed or not expressed. A list of materials, teacher background information, standards, safety notes, assessment, and references are included. This book selection also includes the Table of Contents, Foreword, Preface, Acknowledgments, About The Authors, About Our Approach, Connection to Standards, Conclusion, Appendix A, and Index..

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Type Book ChapterPub Date 5/1/2018Pages 40Stock # PB436X_8d

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