This lesson looks like so much fun, students will use genetic traits to
make a picture of a dog! Here is what the website says: "By randomly
choosing strips of paper that represent DNA, students create then decode
a "DNA recipe" to complete a drawing of a dog. Students learn that
differences in DNA lead to different traits. "
Each student can make their own dog and you can make a great bulletin
board and collect data from all your "puppies" like what traits occured
the most.
One of the lessons for this week is "An Inventory of My Traits".
Students take an inventory of their own easily-observable genetic traits
and compare those inventories with other students in groups. What I also
like about this lab is that you can collect data from all your classes
and compile a chart and do some data analysis with it.
They also have a cute activity with the genetics of GINGERBREAD people
using colored pom-poms.
"In this hands-on activity, students track and record the passage of
colored "pom-pom traits" through three generations of ginger-bread
people. In doing so, students learn that siblings may or may not inherit
the same combination of traits. "
Bi-Weekly Science Lesson Plan List
