2023 - 2024 Muddy Sneakers Expedition Guide
The 2023 - 2024 Muddy Sneakers Expedition Guide offers and overview of each expedition available this school year. For each topic, you'll find information about what to expect including sample activities, NC Essential Science Standard correlation, and vocabulary terms.
The 2023 - 2024 Muddy Sneakers Expedition Guide offers and overview of each expedition available this school year. For each topic, you'll find information about what to expect including sample activities, NC Essential Science Standard correlation, and vocabulary terms.
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INHERITANCE & ADAPTATION<br />
EXPEDITION ACTIVITIES<br />
ORIGINS OF TRAITS<br />
5.L.3.1, 5.L.3.2<br />
As field scientists, students will observe examples of inherited and acquired traits in<br />
their environment and record data in their journals.<br />
*RELAY RACE<br />
5.L.3.2<br />
In two teams, students will run to choose a card with a trait described and place it in<br />
the appropriate category: Inherited or Acquired.<br />
*CLASSIFICATIONS<br />
5.L.3.2<br />
Using Venn Diagrams and dichotomous keys, these activities allow students to<br />
describe and classify organisms based on their unique traits, and give them an<br />
opportunity to apply this practice to native plants they encounter during the<br />
expedition.<br />
PINE TREE TRAITS<br />
5.L.3.1, 5.L.3.2<br />
This activity allows deeper exploration of the traits of a native plant through scientific<br />
inquiry.<br />
Do all pine trees (of a given species) grow by the same amount each year?<br />
At any chosen age are all pine trees (of a given species) also the same height?<br />
*TRAITS THROUGH THE GENERATIONS<br />
5.L.3.2<br />
Set up as a scientific model, this activity teaches students the basics of how traits are<br />
inherited between generations, and why offspring do not exhibit exactly the same<br />
traits as their parents.<br />
Will children look identical to (have the same traits as) their parents?<br />
What fraction of each grandparent's traits will the “kid” inherit?<br />
14<br />
INHERITANCE & ADAPTATION<br />
*Activities that are most likely to take place during the expedition.
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