biology

This game reviews genetics, with 25 questions of varying levels of difficulty. After you open the game in the PowerPoint attachment, click on slideshow and then view show to operate in full screen mode. Clicking on a number in the game board brings you to a question. When that question has been answered click on the yellow box in the lower right corner and you'll be brought back to the game board screen.  Spaces for questions that have already been answered will now appear blank, just like on the TV show.  

This game helps students to enjoy reviewing vocabulary related to genetics.  Each card in the deck has a target vocabulary word and two related taboo words that the student may not use as he/she gives clues so the other students in his/her small group can guess the target word.  Many students have trouble learning the substantial new vocabulary required for biology, and this game lets students have fun while reinforcing their understanding of key terms. 

The first file below provides the master copy for creating the card decks for this game, and the second file below provides the teacher notes, including instructions for playing the game.

This web search activity provides instructions and recommended sources to investigate genetic conditions and diseases.

This minds-on discussion/worksheet activity challenges students to analyze which types of genetic conditions will be more common among children of first cousin marriage and to use evidence concerning the magnitude of observed health effects to evaluate whether laws banning first cousin marriage in 25 states should be repealed.  

The first attached file has the Student Handout and the second attached file has the Teacher Notes.

This minds-on discussion/worksheet activity guides students to think about how mutations and meiotic nondisjunction can result in genetic conditions that are not inherited (most cases of achondroplasia and Down syndrome, respectively). 

The first attached file has the Student Handout and the second attached file has the Teacher Notes.

This minds-on discussion/worksheet activity contains five episodes that can be used to reinforce understanding of genetic principles and the relevance of genetics to everyday life. Each episode focuses on different fundamental genetics concepts, including Punnett squares, codominance, incomplete dominance, sex-linked inheritance, test cross, polygenic inheritance and the interacting effects of genes and the environment on phenotypic characteristics,. You can use all five episodes or use just the specific episodes that help students to understand the specific topics you want to review.

The first attached file has the Student Handout and the second attached file has the Teacher Notes.

This overview summarizes important genetics concepts and provides links to suggested hands-on simulation and laboratory activities, discussion activities, and review games. These learning activities demonstrate how (1) understanding meiosis and fertilization provides the basis for understanding how genes are transmitted from parents to offspring and (2) a basic understanding of the roles of DNA and proteins provides the basis for understanding how genes influence phenotypic characteristics. The suggested activities help students to understand Punnett squares, pedigrees, dominant/recessive alleles, X-linked recessive alleles, incomplete dominance, co-dominance, independent assortment, pleiotropy, polygenic inheritance, test cross, and the interacting effects of genes and environment on phenotypic characteristics.

The attached file has the key concepts and suggested learning activities.

This is the fourth, and final, set of web projects to emerge from The Story of Evolution and the Evolution of Stories, a course offered at Bryn Mawr College in Spring 2011. As the semester ends, students are making use of the biological, philosophical and literary stories of the course to create new, interesting, useful stories of their own.

Take a look around, and feel warmly welcome to respond in the comment area available at the end of each paper. What strikes, intrigues, puzzles you...what, among your reactions, might be of interest or use to the writer, or others in the class, or others who--exploring the internet--might be in search of a thoughtful conversation about evolution and literature?

This is the third set of web projects to emerge from The Story of Evolution and the Evolution of Stories, a course offered at Bryn Mawr College in Spring 2011. Three months into the semester, students are thinking about aspects of the evolution of literary stories that particularly interest--or are useful--to them.

Take a look around, and feel warmly welcome to respond in the comment area available at the end of each paper. What strikes, intrigues, puzzles you...what, among your reactions, might be of interest or use to the writer, or others in the class, or others who--exploring the internet--might be in search of a thoughtful conversation about evolution and literature?