Instructional Video

Population Genetics: When Darwin Met Mendel

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Learners explore population genetics, or how populations of species change over time, leading to evolution with a video that brings together the principles of Mendel and Darwin and explains and models the Hardy-Weinberg equation.

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CCSS: Adaptable
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Instructional Ideas
  • Turn on closed captioning for learners who struggle with English
  • Give your class Hardy-Weinberg problems to work after the video
Classroom Considerations
  • Video assumes scholars understand the following vocabulary: alleles, immigration, emigration, phenotype, genotype, homozygous, and heterozygous
  • Video 18 in a series of 40
  • This video is hosted on YouTube
Pros
  • Video includes a table of contents that makes it easy to select which segment you would like to show
  • Introduces a fair number of vocabulary terms and includes their definitions
Cons
  • None
Common Core