Interactive ALIEN GENETICS and HEREDITY PUNNETT SQUARE Practice Activity
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Here is everything you need to design a complete genetics unit starting with a classroom survey for the students to understand differing traits which can lead to a discussion of dominant and recessive alleles. Then there is an interactive Punnett Square activity where the students practice crossingPrice $11.60Original Price $14.50Save $2.90
Here are six products for a complete middle school genetics unit. Students start by analyzing each other by looking at the dominant and recessive traits of their classmates. They then learn about Punnett squares, both monohybrid and dihybrid, with four more very detailed activities including a dicePrice $19.60Original Price $24.50Save $4.90
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No prep genetics and heredity practice Punnett squares worksheet activity. Use “aliens” to cross homozygous and heterozygous alleles, in Punnett squares, to observe the resulting percentages of genotypes and phenotypes in this interactive genetics activity. Students understand that sexual reproduction results in offspring with genetic variations as traits are passed from the parents through generations.
There are two alien creatures that the students use to determine the alleles and then breed them with five Punnett squares to determine the genotype and phenotype of the first generation. They do a drawing of this new baby and then cross it with a new alien to make a new set of alleles. They do a total of 10 Punnett squares. I use this in the beginning of my unit on genetics and add a lot of the vocabulary to the discussion as we go along.
Included in this resources:
- Teacher Notes
- Key Terms
- Traits of the Aliens
- Dominant or Recessive Chart
- Answers
- Use Punnett Squares to Find Traits of Baby
- Answers
- Complete Drawing of Baby Alien based on Punnett Squares
- Answer
- Cross Baby with New Alien- Fill in Alleles
- Answers
- Punnet Squares to Determine New Baby
- Answers
*****Check out my middle school science teacher’s blog post How to Teach Punnett Squares and Genetics Using Aliens!
I also use these products as part of my genetics unit:
DOMINANT AND RECESSIVE GENETICS TRAITS Classroom Survey MS-LS3-1, HS-LS3
COMPLETE GENETICS PROJECT Design Aliens with Adaptive Traits! MS-LS3-1, HS-LS3-3
Dihybrid Punnet Squares Coloring Activity
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DIGITAL SCIENCE NOTEBOOK TEMPLATE Google Slides with Student Examples
There are several methods I use to get this resource to students.
- Since this is a PowerPoint, I simply upload it into a Google slides presentation and share it on Google Classroom with each individual student. The students can then copy which slides they want and paste them into their own Google Slides unit presentation and add text boxes.
- You can export the PowerPoint into images and then send the images to them in Google Classroom.
- You can download the PowerPoint into images and place all of the images into a Google Drive folder to share with the students.
- If you are using iPads, in the same room as the students, you can simply AirDrop the images, Powerpoint or Google Slides presentation to their iPads .
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