| Elementary
- L.HE.E.1 Observable Characteristics -"Plants
and animals share many, but not all, characteristics
of their parents."
- Learn
Genetics
Several activities for teachers to print off at
no charge but must register at site.
- Microscopes,
Cells, DNA, and You - Classification Bingo
This activity can be used as an "ice breaker"
for the first class session as well as a lead
into the concepts of traits and characteristics
included in future hereditary activities. Students
are handed a bingo chart and are told to meet
people and to get a Bingo by adding people's names
to their chart. Students will walk around the
room and ask each other questions in order to
put their names in the squares that qualify for
both categories on the side and top of the chart.
( Attached ears, curled tongue, brown eyes, curly
hair etc.)
- Nature
and Nurture
This site offers a number of interactive
activities for upper elementary students. People
can be described in terms of their traits. Some
traits are inherited and others result from interactions
with the environment. In these lessons, students
begin to develop an understanding of the role
played by nature (our genes) and nurture (the
environment in which we live and the things that
happen to us) in defining who we are and what
it means to be human.Without talking specifically
about genes and DNA, the simple Internet experiences
at the heart of these lessons (A Nature and Nurture
Walk in Mendel Park) can help elementary students
begin to develop the understandings that will
lead to more in-depth studies at the middle-school
and high-school level.
- SoftSchools.com
Students are able to label
the basic parts of a plant: flower, stem, leaf,
roots. This is just a short activity for a quick
review or check.
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