Vocab: DNA, Chromosomes, Mitosis, Homologous Chromosomes, Meiosis

Day 1: Introduce Mitosis with text, Note Taker, and Ameoba Sisters video.

Day 2:  Introduce Meiosis with text, Note Taker, and Amoeba Sister's Video

Day 3:  Compare and Contrast Mitosis and Meiosis with Venn Diagram and use the text book pages 287-289.  Have students read and discuss text about a 3 Parent Baby if time allows. 

Day 1/2: Textbook Text, Note taker, and Video on Mitosis and Meiosis

Day 3: Video, Venn Diagram, and Article

Vocab:  Sexual Reproduction, Asexual Reproduction, Fertilization 

Day 4: Introduction of Sexual and Asexual Reproduction with text pg 260-263 and Notes using Heredity Poster (Poster will not be finished until later in the unit).  Also, PPT may be used to help explain.

Day 5: Text Time! Investigating Reproductive Stratagies Poster Activity. 

Vocab:  Heredity, Gene, Allele, Genotype, Phenotype, Dominant, Recessive, Incomplete Dominance, Codominance 

Day 6: Introduction to Genetics and Gregor Mendel with PowerPoint with notes, Vocab Foldable, and Text.

Day 7/8: Genes and Traits video, PowerPoint and Activity.  Use text book pages 271-274 to help with explanations. 

Day 7: PowerPoint and Reading about Mendel and Genetics

Day 8: Activity and Video

Vocab:  Punnett Square, Ratio, Probability, Pedigree

Day 9:  Introduction to Dominant and Recessive using Punnett Squares with text and INB activity. Use textbook pages 274-278

Day 10: Dominant and Recessive Traits with Coin Activity

Day 11:  Punnett Square Practice Activity 

Day 12: Text Time!:  Cotton Candy Grapes

Day 13:  Pedigree Practice Activity (Choice of 2 different activities).  Also use the textbook case study on pg 280-281 to discover information on Pedigrees, as well as pg 286.  

Day 14:  Punnett Square Lab Stations

Day 9: Video, PPT, and Activity with Punnett Squares

Day 10: PowerPoint and Trait Activity

Day 11: Punnett Square Practice and Text Time! Article

Day 12: Pedigree Activities

Day 13: Stations

Vocab: DNA, RNA, Mutation, Biotechnology, Artificial Selection, Genetic Engineering, and Cloning

Day 14: What is DNA?  Read about DNA and how it was discovered. Use PPT and INB Foldable.  Pages 293-295 to skim for information about DNA. 

Day 15:  Read/Skim in textbook pages 303-307 about biotechnology, cloning and genetic engineering.  Then show video about biotechnology.  Use text packet and CER to debate biotechnology to answer the question, "Should John and Elsa use biotechnology to produce more milk?".   

Day 16/17:  Text Time! Read about dog breeding using artificial selection and genetic engineering and then "Create" your own dog based on its DNA.  Lesson 5 on page 302-310 for a text resource.  

Day 18:  DNA extraction Lab with fruit. BrainPop about GMO's.  Bill Nye: Genes Video with Worksheet

Day 14: PowerPoint and Notes for the INB and Song

Day 15: Biotechnology CER

Day 16/17: Lab and Text Time!

Day 18: Video and Worksheet

Day 18: Lab and Video Link

Day 19: Review with Around the Room Genetic Circuit and Study Guide

Day 20: Review Game