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.

Concepts

population, genetics, alleles, natural selection, genetic mutation, genetic drift

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Additional Tags

science

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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

RST.11-12.2