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Blueprint Objectives:
Heredity and Reproduction
The student will understand the basic principles of inheritance.
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Recognize that all living things come from other living things.
Where Do Butterflies Come From Pollen Park BBC Schools: http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks2bitesize/science/living_things.shtml
Match offspring with their parents.
Are You My Mother
Recognize that as an organism grows, its appearance may change.
Animal Lifecycles Life Cycles Life Cycles Grades 1-2 BBC Schools: http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks2bitesize/science/living_things.shtml
The student will understand that living things have characteristics that enable them to survive in their environment.
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Provide specific examples of differences among animals of the same kind.
BBC Schools: http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks2bitesize/science/living_things.shtml
Classify an organism according to the environment in which it can best survive.
Recognize that organisms develop the ability to reproduce as they mature. Where do butterflies come from? Life Cycles
Note similarities and differences between parents and offspring. Ologist Why do you look like you? Family Ties
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Choose the diagram that depicts a parent with its offspring.
What makes you, you? What makes me, me? What makes you, you?
Select the illustration that shows an adult organism. Animal Babies
Describe how an organism (e.g., frog, butterfly) changes as it matures. Heredity
Select the illustration that shows how an organism changes as it matures. Life Cycles of Animals Life Cycles Monarch Butterfly Life Cycle
Compare the traits of offspring with those of the parent.
DNA Movie
Distinguish offspring from the parent.
Animals, Babies
Recognize the relationship between reproduction and the survival of a species.
Giant Panda
California Condor
Turtles in Trouble
Describe the life cycle of an animal (i.e., frog, mealworm).
A Butterfly’s Life
Select the illustration that depicts the life cycle of a specific organism.
Life Cycle of A Butterfly
Foss Web (Click Life Cycle Activity)
Insect Life Cycle Animals’ Life Cycle - Webquest
Grade 5 Heredity and Reproduction
Explain the function of the flower in plant reproduction.
How Flowering plants reproduce
Why do plants have flowers?
Observe specific plants and explain how they grow from and produce seeds (i.e., sunflowers, and beans).
Seed Dispersal
Plants in Motion
Compare and contrast how different plants reproduce (i.e., flowers and spores).
Pollination Parties!
Recognize that new generations of living things arise through reproduction.
Animal Cell Mitosis
Movies of plant and animal cell mitosis
Genetic Science Learning Center
Compare the traits of parents and their offspring.
Powerpoint: Heredity
We are all alike
Fun with Heredity
Kids Genetics
Powerpoint JCS: http://jc-schools.net/write/sci/Heredity_files/frame.htm
Heredity Family Level: http://www.genetics.gsk.com/kids/heredity01.htm
Internet Resources: http://classroom.jc-schools.net/sci-units/games/Sunkenanimalgrowth-lesson.ppt http://www.sln.org/guide/knox/Traits/traitsexamples.pdf
Infer the importance of reproduction to the survival of a species.
Reproduction and Heredity
Describe the life cycle of a fast growing plant.
How A Seed Grows Into A Plant
Life Cycle of A Plant
Life Cycle of A Plant Movie
Recognize the difference between complete and incomplete metamorphosis.
Insect Metamorphosis
PBS: Japan’s Secret Garden : http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/satoyama/transform.html
Ivy Hall: http://www.ivyhall.district96.k12.il.us/4th/kkhp/1insects/buginfo.html
Internet Resources: http://www.enchantedlearning.com/coloring/lifecycles.shtml
http://www.naturegrid.org.uk/biodiversity/invert/glossary.html#complete
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Match a flower part with its reproductive function.
Flowering Plan Reproduction
Lesson Plant Reproduction
Distinguish between sexual and asexual methods of reproduction.
Lesson Sexual and Asexual Reproduction
Sexual vs. Asexual Reproduction
Recognize that genetic information is passed from parent to offspring during reproduction.
What makes you, you? What makes me, me?
Recognize advantages and disadvantages of sexual and asexual reproduction.
Compare Sexual and Asexual Reproduction
Recognize a variety of pollination methods and associated floral adaptations.
Pollination
What is Pollination?
Lesson Partners in Pollination
Differentiate between complete and incomplete metamorphosis.
Mitosis/meiosis
What is inheritance?
Use the results of a test cross to distinguish between dominant and recessive traits.
Kids genetics with punnett squares
Differentiate between dominant and recessive traits.
Predict the genotypes of offspring in a monohybrid cross using a punnett square.
Working out Punnett Squares Online
Draw or construct a model representing the relationship among DNA, genes, and chromosomes.
DNA presentation
Gene presentation
Chromosome presentation Genetic Probe
Select models or illustrations that are representations of DNA.
Associate a change in a DNA molecule with a mutation.
Making Protein
Identify types of genetic engineering (i.e., gene splicing and cloning) and evaluate the impact of genetic engineering on society.
Genetic Engineering
Animal Cloning
Construct a simple model that represents the basic process by which reproductive cells are produced (meiosis).
Research and present information on careers related to biotechnology.
Biotechnology
Careers in Biotech
