1. SEPUP Workshop
Unit D
Genetics
Dick Duquin

2. Introduction Name School and grade Have you taught Genetics?
Have you used this kit?
What is your comfort level with genetics?

3. What Kind of Notebook? Composition book lined or graph paper
Spiral notebook
3 ring binder
Paper folder
Little pieces of paper

4. SEPUP Notebook Setting up the Notebook: Title Page Table of Contents
Number the pages
Date your entry
Appendices

5. Reflection
What would you want students to know at the end of a Genetics unit?

6. Activity 54: Investigating Human Traits
Challenge: How much variation is shown in our class?
Vocabulary: characteristic, trait, heredity, inherited, gene, genetics
Procedure: Read about characteristics
White space
Who do you look like in your family?
Why?
Trait vs
Characteristic

8. Activity 54: Investigating Human Traits
Data: Record group data
Record class data
Graph a characteristic
Conclusion Analysis question 1: table in journal
What did I learn?
Re-visit of white space – What is the difference between characteristic and trait
Notes to myself: Do graph.
Gather more data.

9. Activity 55: Plants Have Genes Too!
Challenge: What color leaves will you observe in the offspring?
Background: Notes from introduction
Vocabulary: offspring, gene, trait, inherited
Procedure: Filter paper saturated
White space
Draw Figure 1 in your notebook.
Use color

10. Data: Set up date table for observation – 14 days
Activity 55: Plants
Data: Set up date table for observation – 14 days
Conclusion Go back white space and write a hypothesis with a reason?
(Results in Act. 62. Repeat in Act 64)
Notes to myself: Remember to check plant every day. Keep moist.

12. Activity 56: Joe’s Dilemma
Challenge: Would you want to find out if you had a genetic disease?
Background: Notes on Marfan Syndrome (next slide)
Vocabulary: gene
Procedure: Do steps 1,2,3,4 in notebook before video.
Advantages | Disadvantages
(Full page)
White space
List 5 infectious and 5 non- infectious diseases?

14. Activity 56: Joe’s Dilemma
Data: Notes on video
Conclusion Do analysis question 3 for assessment
What did I learn?
(finish in Act. 67)
Notes to myself: More questions for Dr. Foster.

16. Activity 57: Reproduction
Challenge: What is the difference between sexual and asexual reproduction?
Vocabulary: asexual reproduction, clone, egg cell, fertilization, mutation, sexual reproduction, sperm cell
Procedure: Stop to think
3 level reading guide
White space
What in your cells is causes traits to be inherited?

17. Activity 57: Reproduction
Data: Draw Figure 1 with notes
Include chart page D-19
Conclusion Do analysis question 1 for assessment of understanding
What did I learn?
Notes to myself: Look at plants at home. Sexual or asexual?

19. Activity 58: Creature Features
Challenge: How are simple inherited traits passed from parents to their offspring?
Vocabulary: gene, inherited, trait
Procedure: Teacher does a story with stop to think
White space
Why are children not the same as their parents?

23. Activity 58: Creature Features
Data: Stop to think
Hypothesis
Model for passing of traits (template next slide)
Conclusion: Three rules for genetics from model
Re-visit white space answer.
What did I learn?
Notes to myself:

25. Activity 59: Gene Combo White space
Challenge: How can tossing a coin help you to understand how an organism inherits genes from their parents?
Vocabulary: gene, allele. dominant, recessive
Procedure: Coin toss rules
White space
What did you learn in the last activity?

27. Data: Data Table in journal
Activity 59: Gene Combo
Data: Data Table in journal
Conclusion: Math connection
Ratio vs fraction
AQ 5 for assessment
Re-visit white space answer.
What did I learn?
Notes to myself:

28. Activity 60: Mendel, First Geneticist
Challenge: Who was Gregor Mendel and what did he do?
Vocabulary: gene, allele. dominant, recessive
Procedure: stop to think
Record data?
White space
What is dog breeding?
Why do people breed dogs, cats, horses

29. Data: Data Table in journal AQ#1
Activity 60: Mendel
Data: Data Table in journal AQ#1
Conclusion: Math connection
Ratio vs fraction
AQ 2 for sample size
AQ 3 for math
Re-visit white space answer.
What did I learn?
Notes to myself:

31. Activity 61: Gene Squares
Challenge: How can tossing a coin help you to understand how an organism inherits genes from their parents?
Vocabulary: genotype, phenotype, homozygous, heterozygous
Procedure: following steps in books.
How is this different from when you did this before?
White space
Why do ¼ of Lucy & Oceans off spring have orange tails?

32. Activity 61 : Gene Squares
Data: Do worksheet
Conclusion: Key parts of this graphic organizer
AQ 3 or 4 for assessment
Re-visit white space answer.
What did I learn?
Notes to myself : Write a punnett square problem and do the answer for tomorrow

33. Activity 63: Show me the Genes
Challenge: What role do chromosomes play in inheritance?
Vocabulary: gene, allele, dominant
Procedure: How many stages would you draw for mitosis?
White space
Where are genes located?
Draw

34. Activity 63: Show Me the Genes
Data: Draw mitosis
Draw fertilization
Conclusion:
Key ideas in cell division
AQ #1 – see next slide
Re-visit white space answer.
What did I learn?
Notes to myself : Look on computer for mitosis.

36. Activity 65: Breeding Creature- More Traits
Challenge: What are some patterns of inheritance for other traits?
Vocabulary: gene, allele. dominant, recessive
Procedure: Coin toss rules
Build critter
Name critter
Put on piece of paper for display
White space
Look at picture on page 51.
List characteristics and dominant trait

38. Activity 65: Breeding critters
Data: Tape Data Table in journal
Conclusion: Draw your critter
Incomplete dominance
Co-dominance
Assessment AQ 6, 7, 8?
Re-visit white space answer.
What did I learn?
Notes to myself : Picture of my critter

39. Activity 66: Patterns in Pedigrees
Challenge: How can you use pedigrees to study human traits?
Vocabulary: pedigree
Procedure: analyze each pedigree.
Key parts of a pedigree
White space
What did you learn in the last activity?

41. Activity 66: Patterns in Pedigrees
Data: Good pedigree
Answers to stop to think
Conclusion: Pedigrees as a graphic organizer
Re-visit white space answer.
What did I learn?
Notes to myself: Find out your blood type

43. Activity 68: Lost Children
Challenge: Can you use blood type to help identify the lost children?
Background: Review blood types & add Rh factor
Vocabulary: Allele,
co-dominance
Procedure:
Read scenario
Blood type worksheet
White space
What is your blood type?

45. Activity 68: Lost Children
Data: Data Table in journal
Conclusion: Rh factor
Which boy?
Which girl?
Does blood identify the lost child?
What did I learn?
Notes to myself : AQ #2

46. Activity 69: Evidence from DNA
Challenge: What makes your DNA finger print unique?
Vocabulary: DNA, DNA fingerprinting
Procedure: Part A
Part B – Steps in journal
White space
KWL about DNA & DNA fingerprints

49. Activity 69: Evidence From DNA
Data: compare DNA
AQ #1
Conclusion: AQ #2
Assessment – AQ #3
Re-visit KWL.
What did I learn?
Notes to myself:

50. Activity 70 Finding the Lost Children
Challenge: How can DNA fingerprinting help find the lost children?
Vocabulary: DNA,
DNA fingerprinting
Procedure:
Do practice – step 1
Match other children to parents
White space
Would the DNA of the lost child be the same as mother and father ?
Explain

52. Activity 70: Finding the Lost Children
Data: Match the children
Conclusion: Is there a match?
Look at true story on page 82
AQ 2 for assessment
Re-visit white space answer. Did DNA work?
What did I learn?
Notes to myself : How does this compare to CSI?

53. SEPUP Lesson Plan

54. Issues in Genetics Growing Plants: 55, 62, 64 Genetics disease: 56, 67
Critters: 58 thru 65
Finding lost children: 68 thru 71

55. Assessment: Final Thought
Establish Criteria
Are there clear expectations?

56. Scoring Guide 4 Above and beyond 3 Complete and correct 2 Incomplete
1 Incorrect
0 No response/wrong question

57. Reflection Who owns the learning?
If actions speak louder than words, how will you show ownership?