HEREDITY

GENETICS:

outcomes:
Learning Target

NOTES
DNA basics
Cell to Gene diagram
Practice Complete Dominance
Practice Incomplete Dominance
Practice Sex-linked
Practice Multiple Alleles
Practice Pedigrees
Practice Packet -ALL
Practice Packet KEY


LABS:
Basic Blood Type Lab
DNA Origami instructions
DNA Origami template

ACTIVITIES:
Genetics Project Design a species - Adv. Class Activity
Sesame Street Genetics Assignment
Sponge Bob genetics
Genetics problem packet
Zork Genetics
Monster Genetics
How Well Does a Punnett Square Work?
Genetics ratios using TI83 scatter plots (Adv. Science?)
Nature vs Nurture
DNA decoding
DNA model
How DNA controls the workings of a cell (Protein Synthesis)
DNA Analysis of a Snork

READING MATERIALS: 
Filling in Punnett Square notes
Incomplete dominance 
multiple alleles
sex-linked traits
Sexual vs. Asexual Reproductive strategies 
Case Studies - ethical issues in genetics 


ONLINE:
DNA and heredity webquest
DNA webquest
Epigenetics extension activities

VIDEOS:
What are genes?
Where do genes come from?
What is a phenotype?
HOW to video: Incomplete dominance: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgEMF4veSa8
How to Video: Multiple allele(blood types) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_X9oTr3PlI
How to video: Sex-linked traits  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lHPAQs30EQ
How to video: Pedigrees http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wuk0W10EveU
DNA: how it works(simple) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwibgNGe4aY 


ASSESSMENTS:
Punnett square basics formative
Incomplete dominance formative
Multiple alleles formative
sex-linked traits formative
DNA model
DNA Test/Quiz Bank


Outcomes:  
Students will understand the structure of DNA.
Students will understand the basics of how DNA makes proteins.

LABS: