Watch the Bozeman Science video " Planning and Carrying out Investigations"

• Think about a question that you have about something in and around your home.

• If you can, focus on a question that relates to animal and plant interactions.

• How could you design an experiment that would answer that question?

Complete this activity - How are simple inherited traits passed from parents to their offspring and then to the next generation?- Student worksheet

Watch this video when you are done.

• Heredity; What is a Trait?

Watch these videos

• Dominant Alleles vs Recessive Alleles

• Genotype versus Phenotypes

Then complete this activity - Create an Alien

Watch these videos to learn more about Mendel - The Father of Genetics

• How Mendel’s pea plants helped us understand genetics

• Gregor Mendel

What did you learn these last two weeks about how scientists and you plan and carry out investigations?

Use this Graphic Organizer to help organize one experiment on genetics that you could perform.