GRADE 7 - Lesson Title: Heredity
Textbook and Chapter: Green Textbook Chapter 11
Objectives
- Explain how traits are inherited; Identify Mendel’s role in history of genetics.
- Use a Punnett square to predict the result of crosses.
- Compare and contrast the difference between an individual’s genotype and phenotype.
- Explain how traits are inherited by incomplete dominance.
- Compare multiple alleles and polygenic inheritance.
- Describe two human genetic disorders, and how they are inherited.
- Explain how sex-linked traits are passed to offspring.
- Evaluate the importance of advances in genetics.
- Sequence the steps in making genetically engineered organisms.
Set, Hook, Focus
Why do you look the way that you look?
Learning Tasks
Content delivery will be via key notes slide show, with students utilizing note taking worksheets. Cooperative learning will be an integral part of the learning process (Think, write, pair, share).
- Section 1: Define all voc. words in Chapter 11; Explore Act. - Observing Dimples - Text Page 299; Mini-Lab Try at Home - Comparing Common Traits - Text Page 302; NGEO - Vis. Mendel’s Exp. - Page 303; Math Skills Act. - Punnett Squares - Text Page 305; Section Ass. questions - Text page 306; Pred. Results Activity - Text Page 307; Lab Activity - Gen. traits - Res Page 9; Key Terms - Heredity - Res Page 18; Rein. - Genetics - Res Page 23.
- Section 2: Section Ass. questions - Text page 314; Directed reading - res Page 16; Reinforcement - Res Page 24.
- Section 3: Directed Reading- Advance in Genetics - Res Page 17; Rein. - Res Page 25; Section Ass. questions - Text page 317.
- Students will receive daily practice on using Punnett Squares.
Evaluation/Assessment
- Vocabulary Test Thursday.