Educating Our Eagles - Issue 11
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ELEMENTARY SCHOOL:<br />
Heredity: Where do traits come from?<br />
Students learn where traits come from in humans, plants, and animals. They will learn about<br />
Acquired Traits, as well as Inherited Traits. At the end of the lesson, students will use Google<br />
Docs to divide up the given traits into the correct type of trait. Then they will complete the<br />
monster maker activity to explore how genes work.<br />
As a result of instruction, students will be able to:<br />
• provide evidence, including through the analysis of data, that plants and animals have traits<br />
inherited from parents and that variation of these traits exist in a group of similar organisms.<br />
Observations:<br />
The students really enjoyed the Google Doc activity as well as the monster maker. They were really excited to<br />
see what the monster would look like based on the clues they had to solve.<br />
MA Standards:<br />
3-LS3-1
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