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Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Fourth Grade Science: Life Science: Learned Behavior of Animals

For Students 4th - 5th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Introduces learned behaviors and the different methods of learning.
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Lesson Plan
University of Washington

Genome Sciences Education Outreach: State Your Traits [Pdf]

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Multi-activity instructional activity in which students engage in learning about the inheritance of genetic traits.
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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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PPT
CPALMS

Cpalms: Inherited and Learned Behaviors

For Students 3rd - 5th
View this slideshow containing vibrant pictures, examples, and easy to understand text to learn the difference between inherited and acquired traits.
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Interactive
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Mendel's Laws of Genetic Inheritance

For Students 9th - 10th
This interactive activity, adapted from the Dolan DNA Learning Center, uses Punnett squares to illustrate Mendel's laws of inheritance and how a particular gene combination results in a 3-to-1 ratio of dominant-to-recessive traits.
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eBook
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Life Science: 3.15 Polygenic Traits

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn how in polygenic inheritance, a trait is controlled by more than one gene.
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eBook
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Polygenic Inheritance and Environmental Effects

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about traits that are controlled by multiple genes and/or influenced by the environment. Understand penetrance and expressivity.
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Interactive
What2Learn

What2 Learn: Gene Trivia

For Students 6th - 8th
This Science game about genes was created using the What2Learn game machine. The objective of the game is to correctly answer the questions about genetics. Students should learn genetics and heredity before playing the game.
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Website
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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Unit Plan
Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Biology: Genetics

For Students 9th - 10th
Through informational text, interactive activities, practice problems, and video clips, students analyze how biological traits are passed on to successive generations.
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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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Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Life Science: Non Mendelian Inheritance

For Students 6th - 8th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] In all of Mendel's experiments, he worked with traits where a single gene controlled the trait. Each also had one allele that was always dominant over the recessive...
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eBook
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Life Science: 3.14 Non Mendelian Inheritance

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about some examples of inheritance that do not follow Mendelian inheritance rules.
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Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Life Science: Polygenic Traits

For Students 6th - 8th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Another exception to Mendel's rules is polygenic inheritance, which occurs when a trait is controlled by more than one gene. This means that each dominant allele...
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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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Interactive
Other

Explore Learning: Mouse Genetics: Two Traits

For Students 9th - 10th
Breed pure mice with known genotypes that exhibit specific fur and eye colors, and learn how traits are passed on via dominant and recessive genes. Punnett squares can be used to predict results. (Free usage is limited to five minutes...
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Handout
Sophia Learning

Sophia: X Linked Traits

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson will give examples of disorders that are linked to genes on the X chromosome.
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Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs: Our Genes/our Choices: The Probabilities of Problems: A Look at Inheritance

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Learn how the genes inherited from two parents can be recombined in their offspring in this simulation activity. In addition, investigate the probabilities of passing on inherited genetic disorders.
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Unit Plan
Lumen Learning

Lumen: Boundless Psychology: Nature vs. Nurture

For Students 9th - 10th
Study what roles genetics and the environment play in human behavioral development. This is a learning module which includes the reading assignment, a quiz, and PowerPoint program.
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Handout
University of Utah

University of Utah: learn.genetics: Ptc: The Genetics of Bitter Taste

For Students 9th - 10th
Read about the PTC gene, and listen to scientists discuss this accidental discovery which lead to important clues about human evolution.
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Handout
University of Utah

University of Utah: Learning Center: The Epigenome Learns From Its Experiences

For Students 9th - 10th
Find out how epigenetic tags that tell genes whether to turn on or off in their lifetime, act as a cellular memory.
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Interactive
University of Utah

University of Utah: Learning Center: learn.genetics: Epigenetics: Gene Control

For Students 9th - 10th
Turn the control knob in this interactive to change the level of gene expression in a cell. Find out how gene, mRNA, and protein production are linked.
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Article
Other

Simply Psychology: Saul Mc Leod: Nature vs. Nurture in Psychology

For Students 9th - 10th
There are five approaches to psychology which are on a spectrum from nature versus nurture. The approaches with inherited traits lean towards the nature end and those with acquired traits are on the nurture end. This article helps...
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Unit Plan
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Basic Concepts of Heredity

For Students 9th - 10th
An introductory lesson on the basics of heredity, and the inheritance of genetic traits. [7:57]

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