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Curated OER

Principles of Heredity

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students model traits on genes using colored paper and tongue depressors to represent chromosomes. In this heredity lesson plan, students use their "chromosome sticks" to understand chromosome pairs, genes, dominant traits, recessive...
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Curated OER

Where are the Dinosaurs?

For Teachers K - 2nd
Learners construct their own diorama based on the life of a dinosaur. In this dinosaur lesson, students create models of dinosaurs and dinosaurs' eggs to explore the life cycle of this extinct species.
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Curated OER

Karyotypes and Inheritance of Chromosomes

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students explore the mode of inheritance of chromosomes. Given a scenario, students use the Human Genome sheet to determine inherited chromosomes. They illustrate the difference between genotype and phenotype. Students develop a model...
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Curated OER

Nature and Nurture

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students look into the role both nature and nurture play in determining an individual's traits. They examine how genes and the environment affect personality
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Curated OER

Nature And Nurture

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Learners develop an understanding of the role both nature and nurture play in determining an individual's traits. Using a website, students answer questions about nature and nurture in order to solve the riddle, What do you call a smart...
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Curated OER

What is Biotechnology

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students discover the concept of biotechnology. In this biotechnology lesson, students explore the history of biotechnology and its implications today.
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Curated OER

Blood Business

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Young scholars identify the different kinds of blood. In this biology lesson, students investigate the antigens, agglutinins and Rh factor using their own blood. They use Punnett squares to predict blood type of offspring.
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Curated OER

World-wide Search for the Dominant Trait

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students receive instruction on dominant/recessive traits, access World-Wide Search for the Dominant Trait and download information on which traits to assess. They collect data on at least 20 people and prepare a data chart.
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Vision Learning

Visionlearning: Biology: Genetics Ii: Mendel and Multiple Genetic Traits

For Students 9th - 10th
Instructional module focusing on Gregor Mendel's scientific legacy and analysis of multiple genetic traits. Discussion includes Mendel's work on his second law, the Law of Independent Assortment, which states that different traits are...
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Vision Learning

Visionlearning: Biology: Genetics I: Mendel's Laws of Inheritance

For Students 9th - 10th
Instructional module focusing on Gregor Mendel's Laws of Inheritance. Discussion includes Mendel's discovery of dominant and recessive traits as well as co-dominance and incomplete dominance in genetics. Site also includes an interactive...
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Mendel and His Peas

For Students 9th - 10th
Discover how Gregor Mendel uncovered the key principles of inheritance using a simple, familiar system: the pea plant. Learn about Mendel's life, his experiments, and his legacy.
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Palomar Community College District

Palomar College: Mendels' Genetics

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from Palomar College provides a good background on exactly what Mendel did. Vocabulary links throughout make this a very good introduction article for genetics.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Episd: Mendel's Laws and Genetics

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Explore the genetics research conducted by biologist Gregor Mendel and understand the significance of alleles on genes.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Episd: Mendel's First Set of Experiments

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Understand the fundamentals of Gregor Mendel's early genetics experiments. Students will explore the Law of Segregation within genetics and how to cross F1 and F2...
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Other

Mendel Web

For Students 9th - 10th
This site, built upon Gregor Mendel's famous paper of 1865, is a teaching and learning resource complete with the full text of his paper, various texts, essays and commentaries, reference materials, and much more.
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Article
Story Behind the Science

Story Behind the Science: The Work of Gregor Mendel [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
A detailed biography of Gregor Johann Mendel, famous for his foundational work in the field of genetics. Questions are posed throughout about the nature of scientific research.
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Education Development Center

Education Development Center: Mendel's Peas

For Students 9th - 10th
There are many ways to learn about Gregor Mendel and his pea experiments. This interactive tutorial requires users to actually plant, grow, and cross different plants to observe their traits. Pedigrees are also used to help show dominant...
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Other

Electronic Scholarly Publishing: Foundations of Classical Genetics

For Students 9th - 10th
This collection of publications about genetics includes a unique approach to illustrate a genetics timeline. Important genetic events are correlated with other historical events. The book format allows you to scroll through history.
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Other

North Dakota State: Mendel's First Law (Law of Segregation)

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource explains Mendel's first law (Law of Segregation) in detail. Includes Mendel's original experiments with results and conclusions.
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Other

North Dakota State Univ.: Mendel's Law of Ind. Assort.

For Students 9th - 10th
Mendel's second law and how he arrived at it through his experiments. Includes vocabulary and examples.
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Estrella Mountain Community College

Estrella Mountian College: Introduction to Genetics

For Students 9th - 10th
This site explains genetic beliefs before and after Mendel, and also includes a section on Mendel himself and his experiments, entitled, "The Monk and his Peas".
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Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

Dna From the Beginning: Genetic Inheritance Follows Certain Rules

For Students 9th - 10th
Find out what happened when Mendel crossed two hybrid pea plants. The animations do a good job explaining why these crosses produce a 3:1 ratio of traits.
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California State University

Csu Chico: Population Genetics

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a group of Mendelian Genetics exercises that are designed to show the evolution of a trait within a population. The site covers instruction in calculating genotypic and allelic frequencies, determining dominance, the...
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Episd: Mendel's Second Set of Experiments

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Identify the Law of Independent Assortment and dihybrid crossing while studying Mendel's second set of experiments in genetics.

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