7th Grade Science Guide

7.4: Reproduction & Inheritance 3 Dimensions & Progressions

Unit 5

Objective

Overview

Materials

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

● Students will be

● Lesson Plan

introduced to mutations by observing a color blind test.

Activity: The Good, The Bad, and The Neutral

Objective

Overview

Materials

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

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

● Lesson Plan

Activity: Building Mutations

Objective

Overview

Materials

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

● Students will use

● Lesson Plan

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

Objective

Overview

Materials

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

● Students will use a

● Lesson Plan

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.

● Gizmo

● I can explain how mutation and sexual reproduction