7th Grade Science Guide

7.4: Reproduction & Inheritance 3 Dimensions & Progressions

Unit 5

●​ Explore how finch populations change in times of drought and excess rainfall. ●​ Identify examples of directional and stabilizing selection. Explain how new species of finches could arise.

Formative Assessment: SEEd 7.4.2 Formative Assessment

Activity: Can You See Like Me?

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●​ I can create a model to show how mutations can be harmful, helpful, or neither.

●​ Students will be

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introduced to mutations by observing a color blind test.

Activity: The Good, The Bad, and The Neutral

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●​ I can create a model to show how mutations can be harmful, helpful, or neither.

●​ Students will be exploring different mutations and finding patterns within these examples.

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Activity: Building Mutations

Objective

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●​ I can create a model to show how mutations can be harmful, helpful, or neither.

●​ Students will use

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instructions (representing DNA) to build structures (representing proteins). Some instructions will have altered information (representing mutations) to have slight or big differences between the structures.

Activity: It’s in the Family

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