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Interactive
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

Cold Spring Harbor: Duchenne/becker Muscular Dystrophy

For Students 9th - 10th
This interactive multimedia site has all sorts of information about muscular dystrophy. The animations and diagrams are excellent, and the interviews gives insight into families dealing with muscular dystrophy. Diagnosis, inheritance,...
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Handout
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories: Beta Thalassemia

For Students 9th - 10th
This is an impressive site about beta-thalassemia. The disease is caused when the body cannot make an important blood protein. You can find information about causes, diagnosis, treatment, lifestyle, and inheritance at this interactive...
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Handout
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Variations on Mendel's Laws (Overview)

For Students 9th - 10th
Article reviews Mendel's basic model of inheritance then provides an overview of variations on Mendel's laws, including multiple alleles, incomplete dominance, co-dominance, pleiotropy, lethal alleles, sex linkage, genetic interactions,...
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Unit Plan
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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Interactive
BBC

Bbc Schools: Ks2 Bitesize: Science: The Living World

For Students 3rd - 6th
This landing page includes learning modules on the following topics of: animals, plants, microorganisms, life cycles and reproductions, food chains, habits, humans and the environment, adaptation, inheritance, and evolution.
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Activity
University of Arizona

University of Arizona: Sex Linked Inheritance Set 2

For Students 9th - 10th
This site, provided by The University of Arizona, gives a good set of genetics problems that involve sex-linked genes. Great to review what you know! Links are provided to access the various subjects covered in this problem set.
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Bryn Mawr College

Serendip: Dragon Genetics: Understanding Inheritance

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Brief text summary of what students learn in the Dragon Genetics II lab along with links to download Student Handouts and Teacher Preparation Notes in PDF and Word formats. Using Popsicle sticks, students experiment with different...
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Handout
eSchool Today

E School Today: Your Cool Tips on Genetics

For Students 3rd - 8th
Explains basic genetics concepts, including genes, DNA, chromosomes, sex chromosomes, how traits are inherited, genetic variation, cloning, and stem cells.
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Activity
Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Are Fingerprint Patterns Inherited?

For Students 9th - 10th
Fingerprints are used as reliable identification because each person's fingerprints are unique. This lab allows you to research and discover if these unique patterns are created randomly or influenced by genetics.
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Handout
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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Lesson Plan
University of Washington

Genome Sciences Education Outreach: State Your Traits (High School Level) [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Multi-activity lesson focuses on genetics and the basic principles of inheritance.
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Interactive
Concord Consortium

Concord Consortium: Stem Resources: Modern Genetics

For Students 9th - 10th
Try your hand at mating dragons to learn about genetic recombination, meiosis, and inherited traits. Understand how chromosomes separate in meiosis with a science animation. Then change alleles for the dragons to see what happens to...
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Interactive
Utah Education Network

Uen: Offspring Traits Hey, Where Did You Get That From?

For Students 9th - 10th
Can you distinguish traits that are acquired from those which are inherited? Answer these online questions and find out.
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Lesson Plan
Michigan Reach Out

Michigan Reach Out: Genetics: You Are Unique

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
In this lesson plan, students learn basic genetics by identifying their inherited traits.
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Website
Center for Innovation in Engineering and Science Education, Stevens Institute of Technology

Ciese: Human Genetics Project: Is the Dominant Trait Most Prevalent?

For Students 9th - 10th
Human-Genetics: A Worldwide Search for the Dominant Trait allows you to collect data and share your results with students around the world. Register your class, complete the student survey, participate in discussion boards, and interact...
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Handout
University of Hamburg

University of Hamburg: Deviations From Mendelian Laws And: What Is the Meaning of Dominance?

For Students 9th - 10th
Upper level discussion of several of Mendel's experiments and laws.
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Unit Plan
Concord Consortium

Concord Consortium: Stem Resources: Geniverse

For Students 9th - 10th
A virtual world where students conduct genetics experiments on a model species called drakes. After the story narrative is introduced, they engage in a quest to heal a sick dragon. As they play, they will learn about the principles of...
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University of Arizona

The Biology Project: Human Biology: Human Genetics Problem Set

For Students 9th - 10th
A set of sixteen multiple-choice questions. Once solved, incorrect answers are linked to tutorials to help solve the problem.
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Unit Plan
About Kids Health

About Kids Health: How the Body Works: Genetics

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn all about genetics and how it works in this interactive teaching aid that highlights the study of genes using colorful animated illustrations.
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PPT
Northern Illinois University

Northern Illinois University: Biology: Presentation: Pedigree Analysis

For Students 9th - 10th
(Requires Microsoft PowerPoint or OpenOffice Impress.) This presentation discusses the goals of pedigree analyis and uses example of how the process is performed.
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Article
Curated OER

Kids Health: Cystic Fibrosis

For Students 9th - 10th
This article, written for younger readers, explains cystic fibrosis (CF), an inherited disease that causes the body to produce mucus that's extremely thick and sticky.
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Article
Other

Maple Syrup Urine Disease: An Overview

For Students 9th - 10th
Read about the rare inherited disorder affecting newborn babies and children called maple syrup urine disease(MSUD). Including information on how this condition is inherited and how its different forms affect the body, this article is...
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Website
Other

Maple Syrup Urine Disease: An Introduction

For Students 9th - 10th
This article provides general information on maple syrup urine disease(MSUD), "An inherited metabolic disorder," that can cause death. Learn about the symptoms that surface during a newborn's first days of life and how this disease, once...
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Website
Nolo

Nolo: Wills

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from Nolo provides a wealth of information regarding wills. Content includes an FAQ section, information on how to make a will, special topics ranging from family members' right to inherit, to fighting a will.

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