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eSchool Today

E School Today: Your Cool Tips on Genetics

For Students 3rd - 8th
Explains basic genetics concepts, including genes, DNA, chromosomes, sex chromosomes, how traits are inherited, genetic variation, cloning, and stem cells.
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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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Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Investigate Alien Genetics

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this activity, you will use an alien model to demonstrate how genes or physical traits are passed on from parents to their offspring.
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California State University

Csu Chico: Population Genetics

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a group of Mendelian Genetics exercises that are designed to show the evolution of a trait within a population. The site covers instruction in calculating genotypic and allelic frequencies, determining dominance, the...
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Estrella Mountain Community College

Estrella Mountian College: Introduction to Genetics

For Students 9th - 10th
This site explains genetic beliefs before and after Mendel, and also includes a section on Mendel himself and his experiments, entitled, "The Monk and his Peas".
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Other

Suny: Biology: Pedigree Analysis

For Students 9th - 10th
Pedigree inheritance is a method of examining inherited traits. Learn how to use this method and develop conclusions through these examples.
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Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Hhmi: Biointeractive: Origin of Humans With Quiz

For Students 9th - 10th
See what genetic traits paleontologists have discovered that set humans apart from other organisms.
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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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Estrella Mountain Community College

Online Biology Book: Introduction to Genetics

For Students 9th - 10th
This college-level biology reference book introduces the study of heredity and genetics using diagrams and descriptive illustrations.
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Open Curriculum

Open Curriculum: Human Inheritance

For Students 9th - 10th
This illustrated article describes the difference between a genetic trait and a genetic disease/disorder.
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University of Utah

University of Utah: learn.genetics: Finding a Gene on the Chromosome Map

For Students 9th - 10th
Play the role of a scientist and piece together the genetic puzzle to determine the gene responsible for a disorder.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Heredity Mix 'N Match

For Teachers 6th - 8th
This site includes a lesson plan designed to teach students how genetic traits are passed down from parents to offspring. Students will explore such concepts as random selection, chrosomes, genotypes and phenotypes using jelly beans and...
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Variations on Mendel's Laws (Overview)

For Students 9th - 10th
Article reviews Mendel's basic model of inheritance then provides an overview of variations on Mendel's laws, including multiple alleles, incomplete dominance, co-dominance, pleiotropy, lethal alleles, sex linkage, genetic interactions,...
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CPALMS

Florida State University Cpalms: Florida Students: Yes or No to Gmo?

For Students 6th - 8th
Discover the purpose of genetic engineering in agriculture. Explore the pros and cons of genetic modification.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Episd: Punnett Squares

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] While building on the study of genetics, students will understand how to predict genetic traits with the application of Punnett Squares.
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Yale University

Yale New Haven Teachers Institute: Heredity: Your Connection to the Past

For Teachers 9th - 10th
An indepth introduction to genetics as a whole with sample lessons, vocabulary, and bibliography. From the Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: What's Dominant?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In a class discussion format, the teacher presents background information about basic human genetics. The number of chromosomes in both body cells and egg and sperm cells is covered, as well as the concept of dominant and recessive...
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OpenStax

Open Stax: Anatomy & Physiology: Patterns of Inheritance

For Students 9th - 10th
Students learn about patterns of inheritance including genotype and phenotype, and then learn about the inheritance of autosomal dominant and recessive and sex-linked genetic disorders.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Can You Curl Your Tongue?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
This lesson is adapted from a Connected Mathematics Unit, How Likely is It? This investigation introduces biology as a source of applications for probability. In this lesson, Curling your Tongue, students determine how many students in...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Your Glorious Gene Pool

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students read the books like I Am the Dog. I Am the Cat by Donald Hall and Joyful Noise by Paul Fleischman and read the lyrics while listening to the song "Shallow End of the Gene Pool" by the Austin Lounge Lizards. Then students learn...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: The Benefits of Biodiversity

For Teachers 9th - 10th
First, students toss coins to determine what traits a set of mouse parents possess, such as fur color, body size, heat tolerance, and running speed. Next they use coin tossing to determine the traits a mouse pup born to these parents...
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PBS

Pbs: Our Genes, Our Choices

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Student teams research human behavior and explore whether traits are inherited only by genetic inheritance or if environmental factors can play a role as well.
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University of Utah

University of Utah: Learn Genetics: What Are Blood Transfusions?

For Students 9th - 10th
Get an overview of what's involved in a blood transfusion. You can also check your understanding by predicting which combinations of blood will cause agglutination.
Article
Famous Scientists

Famous Scientists: Gregor Mendel

For Students 9th - 10th
Find out how Gregor Mendel's experiments led him to be known as the father of genetics.

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