7th Grade Science Guide

7.4: Reproduction & Inheritance 3 Dimensions & Progressions

Unit 5

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

●​ Students will use a

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pedigree chart to explain that color blindness is a genetic mutation.

Activity: Gizmo - Mutation & Selection

Objective

Overview

Materials

●​ Using the Gizmo, students can change an environment by altering its background color. Students then observe how insects in that environment evolve in response to the change.

●​ Gizmo

●​ I can explain how mutation and sexual reproduction produce variation in a population.

Formative Assessment: SEEd 7.4.3 Formative Assessment

Phenomena Assessment: Bird Beaks

Objective

Overview

Materials

●​ I can explain how

●​ Students review a picture of different types of bird beaks, and make observations about why there might be so many different types of beaks.

●​ Bird Beaks Picture & Writing Prompt

different adaptations and structures will make an organism more likely to survive and reproduce.

Phenomena: Russian Fox Experiment

Objective

Overview

Materials

●​ I can present information that shows how technologies have changed how humans offset the inherited traits of organisms.

●​ Students make

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observations, inferences and predictions about the following experiment.

Activity: A Scientists Best Friend

Objective

Overview

Materials

●​ I can present information that shows how

●​ Students obtain

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information as to how the