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K20 LEARN

You're My 'Karyo'-Type: Karyotype For Chromosomal Disorders

For Teachers 9th - 11th
What's your type? Genetically speaking, of course! Immerse your class in the world of karyotypes through an insightful activity from the K20 Center. Scholars take on the role of genetic counselors to determine the karyotype of offspring...
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Activity
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Activity: Gummy Bear Genetics

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Who's your Daddy ... and Mommy for that matter? Given a first-generation group of gummy bear offspring, young scientists must determine which bears are their parents. An activity worksheet covers the differences in genotypes and...
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Organizer
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Which Baby Animals Looks Unlike Their Parents?

For Students K - 2nd
Learners review the steps of the butterfly life cycle to show how the babies are different from the parents. This learning exercise is a graphic organizer with four fill in the blank statements.
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How You Become a Unique Individual

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Students investigate how traits are passed from parents to offspring via meiosis and fertilization. They recognize that the combination of alleles forming a gamete is random.
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Interactive
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

Children Resemble Their Parents

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Gregor Mendel's work revolutionized agriculture from an art to a science. Explore Mendel's work with an interactive lesson that includes animations, video, and practice problems. The instruction describes the early discoveries that...
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Chips Ahoy: Chip Off the Old Block

For Teachers 1st
First graders compare and contrast adult and baby animals to identify similar characteristics shared by both.
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Worksheet
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What is Genetics?

For Students 9th
In this biology worksheet, 9th graders identify which seed color is dominant in the given chart and explain why it is. Then they create a Punnett square showing the alleles of the parent plants and first generation of offspring.
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Worksheet
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Continuing Life

For Students 9th - 12th
In this reproduction worksheet, students will review the genetic processes in sexual reproduction and asexual reproduction by answering 6 true or false statements. Then students will complete 2 short answer questions about the offspring...
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Flower Power: An Introduction to Heredity

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students observe flowers and how they grow according to heredity. In this flowers lesson plan, students observe physical traits that make flowers the offspring of other flowers, and fill out worksheets according to their findings.
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Look Alikes

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders compare and contrast the physical features of parents and offspring. For this life science lesson, 3rd graders classify a set of animal pictures according to their similarities. They share and explain their work in class.
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Animal Babies on the Farm

For Teachers K
Students identify different farm animals and match farm animal babies to their parent(s). They recognize more specific gender terminology for farm animals.
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What is the Parent's Name?

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
In this early childhood word recognition worksheet, students read the 8 baby animal's names and fill in the blanks of the matching adult animal's names with the correct letter.
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Lesson Plan
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Using the Internet to Do Punnett Squares

For Teachers 7th - 10th
What a fun way to explore Mendelian Genetics! Using a computer connected to the Internet, beginning biologists construct and use Punnett squares of monohybrid crosses to explain how genetic traits are passed to offspring. Other websites...
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Biology Corner

Pipe Cleaner Babies

For Students 9th - 12th
Ever been told you have your father's eyes? How did it happen? Young biologists get a hands-on experience in meiotic gene expression with a fun pairs-based activity. Participants use pipe cleaner chromosomes with trait beads to make...
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Genetics

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Become familiar with the basic concepts of inheritance. Your junior high students work through mulitple examples of crosses and calculate probabilities of trait occurance. The explain the concept that each parent contributes one half of...
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Worksheet
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Dragon Genetics ~ Independent Assortment and Genetic Linkage

For Students 9th - Higher Ed
Imagine a pair of dragons that produce offspring. What percentage of the hatchlings have wings and large antlers? An engaging activity draws genetics learners in, introduces them to alleles, meiosis, phenotypes, genotypes, and teaches...
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Worksheet
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Help the Mommy Animal Find Her Babies

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this language arts activity, learners learn the names of mother animals and the babies by examining 4 sets of pictures. Using the word bank, students write the names by the pictures of the big and little animals. Then learners trace...
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Lesson Plan
Oklahoma State University

Hairy Heredity

For Teachers 5th - 8th Standards
Young scholars learn that heredity comes down to the flip of a coin with this cross-curricular math and science lesson. Using smiley faces as a model, students toss coins to determine which dominant or recessive traits will be passed on...
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How Unique Are You?

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students explore how genetic information is passed down from parent to offspring. Because of this, they examine how this causes the variation in each species.
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Next Year's Seeds

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders explore genetic traits. In this genetic traits lesson, 5th graders discover how traits are passed from parent to offspring while examining plants. Students problem solve real world applications.
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Comparing Apples and Onions

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders observe heredity. In this Science lesson, 5th graders are introduced to the concept of traits being passed from parents to offspring. Students investigate the concepts through apples and onions.
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Lesson Plan
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Genetics: Mice Rule! (Or Not)

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Learners explore genetics and evolution by examining a hypothetical mouse population. Using coin tosses, they determine mouse traits of parents and offspring. Finally, they consider the outcomes of changing environmental conditions on...
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Lesson Plan
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Methods of Teaching Evolution To Middle School Children

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars study evolutionary thought. They examine how characteristics are inherited and that they are a source of variation. They illustrate the perpetuation, elimination, and variation made among members of a species. They...
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Worksheet
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Paper Pets

For Students 8th - 10th
In this paper pets genetics worksheet, students are given 4 genetic traits found in a particular species (paper pet). Students are given the genotypes of the parents of the paper pets and they perform genetic crosses using punnet squares...

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