patterns of similarities and differences exist between parents and offspring.
/ Ii / INvestigate
1. Creature Features - investigate how simple inherited traits are passed from parents to their offspring and then to the next generation.
2. Breeding Critters-More Traits - investigate some patterns of inheritance other than the one discovered by Mendel. 3. Alien Offspring - investigate genotype, phenotype, dominant and recessive to create your own unique baby alien creation. |
/ Iii / Level Up!
During this lesson you will learn more about why individuals of the same species vary in how they look, function, and behave.
✎Notes:
- Individuals of the same kind of plant or animal are recognizable as similar but can also vary in many ways.
/ IV / choose your path
FREE PLAY [+1 point]
Reflect on this topic any way you wish. NOVICE [+2 points]
These particular kittens look like their parent but they are not exactly the same. Describe 4 or more similarities and differences in features that these particular cats have that is evidence young animals are very similar, but not exactly the same as their parents. |
ADVANCED [+4 points]
Make 4 or more observations about the similarities and differences in features of these horses and their baby (foal) as evidence individuals of the same type of animal are recognizable as similar, but also vary in many ways. EXPERT [+5 points]
Make observations of your own to gather evidence to support the claim young plants and/or animals are like, but not exactly like, their parents (e.g., size and shape of body parts, color and/or type of hair, leaf shape, stem rigidity.) |
/ v / Knowledge Check
✓ MASTERY CHECK
National Research Council 2012. A Framework for K-12 Science Education: Practices, Crosscutting Concepts, and Core Ideas. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. https://doi.org/10.17226/13165
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LS3.B, 1-LS3-1
Make observations to construct an evidence-based account that young plants and animals are like, but not exactly like, their parents. (Patterns) [1-LS3-1]
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LS3.B, 1-LS3-1
Make observations to construct an evidence-based account that young plants and animals are like, but not exactly like, their parents. (Patterns) [1-LS3-1]