Daily Lesson Plan/Learning Guide for Day 6
Course, Unit Theme and Grade: 7th Grade Science - Heredity
Standard and Objective:
Understanding(s) for the day:
Essential Question(s) for the day:
How do you anticipate activities, materials
etc. connect to students prior knowledge?
(academic, interests, learning styles,
motivation, Funds of Knowledge)
Daily Assessments:
(formative and/or summative)
Learning Activities:
(Include description and time frame for each inheritance.
activity)
NGSS: MS-LS3-1 (LS3-B)
NGSS: MS-LS3-2 (LS3-A)
Understanding the past allows us to predict our future.
We are much more alike than it may seem.
Do structures determine ability?
Are we defined by our genetics?
Student's will be able to relate to their own lives by considering the types of traits
within their families and pets. They will be able to better identify where certain traits
of theirs came from that they cannot directly see in their parents. Logical-
mathematical intelligences will be used as well as intrapersonal intelligence in
reflection on their own traits.
Daily opener will show student's knowledge of using punnet squares and determining
genotype.
Incredibles Blood Typing WS will show undesrtanding of tracking genotype
backwards through generations.
Exit Ticket: Determine types of inheritance.
(10 minutes) Class opener - Questions to review Punnett Squares and spark interest in
Questions: (1)If a guinea pig offspring has long hair (which is recessive),
what are the possible genotypes of its parents? Create a punnett square
for each possible combination. (2) As you created your Monsters, each
allele coded for two possibilities, is this a realistic way to look at all
genetics? (3) Suppose you had 2 quarters, 2 dimes, and 2 nickels, how
many possible combinations of 2 coins could you make?
(20 minutes) Notes about different types of inheritance (incomplete dominance, co-
dominance, polygenic inheritance, multiple alleles) using images to show phenotypes
expressed by them - ex. Blood type. Use colored dyes and beads to represent the
difference between co-dominance and incomplete dominance.
(20 minutes) Incredibles blood typing complex inheritance WS. Students, given
childrens blood genotypes, need to figure out the parents genotypes and ideal mates
genotypes for specific outcomes.
**Fast Finishers can use their Chromebooks to go online and play the blood typing
game.
(10 minutes) Exit ticket with questions and models about the various types of
inheritance beyond Mendelian Inheritance.

Accommodations made for struggling and
accelerated learners:
(grouping patterns, content literacy
strategies, etc.)
Resources:
Materials Needed:
How has the prior day's assessment shaped Students have now gotten a great deal of practice with Punnett Squares, but for the
your instruction.
Struggling learners will be paired with average and accelerated learners to allow them
peer assistance on the Incredibles WS.
Accelerated learners can use their Chromebooks to go online and play the blood
typing game.
Textbook: Life's Structure and Function (Glencoe Science, 2008)
Video Describing Blood Types: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttjn1jVACk8
Blood Typing Game:
www.nobelprize.org/educational/medicine/bloodtypinggame/gamev2/index.html
Marbles/Beads and Colored Dyes
Incredibles Worksheets
Exit Tickets
Punnett Squares they've been using, they know the parents genotypes to start with.
Now I want them to have to figure out genotypes based on information given. In
learning about complex inheritance patterns, practicing Punnett Squares (which they
are familiar with) should help them to recognize that it is not always a black and
white answer when it comes to genetics.