Activities

HANDS-ON ACTIVITY USING YARN AND A BUNCH OF STUFF:

STUDENTS CREATING A FLIPBOOK:

THE MITOSIS STORY FILL IN THE BLANK:

GREAT VIDEOS TO INTRODUCE BEAKER BABY ACTIVITIES: [] (the first 3 series of these videos are great). Show them, go through the activity with them, you pretty much have one lesson done! Rubric for beaker babies activities:

I have merged a whole bunch of resources to create this dry lab based on monohybrid and dihybrid crosses. I hope it is useful in your class! (I'll be doing it on tuesday with my class so I'll let you know how it goes.) - Majury

I also found this really great case study based on dihybrid crosses that you can do in groups with your class. It's really great practice for the students. Just make sure you do the crosses yourself because I took a quick glance at the teacher notes provided and noticed that there were some typos. - Majury

DIHYBRID SPONGEBOB WORKSHEET: (You'll probably want to change the wording to the first question, it wasn't too clear whether the fiance was purebred for the long nose. He shouldn't be since his mother had a stubby nose.)

PEDIGREE WORKSHEET: [] (Note: the following link, [], that is provided by the handout, has an error. It is impossible for identical twins to be of different genders.) PEDIGREE ACTIVITY (Notes: I cannot solve pedigree 2... But i know pedigree 1 works (the one on the 2nd page), the key is that the pedigree shows two sets of grandparents. Works well if students work in pairs or groups of 3, some of them are able to solve it in like 10-15 minutes. I've ran this with one class so far, and most don't realize that there are two grandparents.):

STSE Activity

Dry Lab - Chromosomal Disorders - Karyotyping activity