L3: Genetics & Heredity | Arizona STEM Acceleration Project (ASAP)

Photorealistic AI image of a food web scene in a forest

Investigating Animal Life Cycles with Technology, 3rd-4th grade

Grades: 3rd Grade, 4th Grade

In this lesson, 3rd and 4th-grade students will explore the life cycles of various animals using technology to enhance their understanding. Students will research the stages of an animal's life cycle

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Life Cycle Environmental Science Educational Technology

PhET Natural Selection

Grades: 8th Grade

Students will review heredity and genetics using this lesson plan. Students will have an opportunity to explore generations, genetic variations, pedigrees and fitness using this lesson plan and PhET

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Heredity Genetics Natural Selection pHet Simulation

Making of Agar Plates

Grades: 10th Grade, 11th Grade, 12th Grade

This lesson plan is on how to make agar plates to grow media on. This teaches the students how to measure out the agar and water and mix properly and plate the agar properly.

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Agar. Measurement

Penguin Protectors: Understanding Climate Change, Math, Properties of Water, Conservation of Matter and Teamwork with Penguins

Grades: Kindergarten, 1st Grade, 2nd Grade, 3rd Grade, 4th Grade, 5th Grade, 6th Grade, 7th Grade, 8th Grade

Most students are likely familiar with popular films like Happy Feet, Surf’s Up, Penguins of Madagascar, and classic books like Mr. Popper's Penguins. Capitalizing on this familiarity with penguins

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Habitats Natural Selection Climate Change

Natural Selection: Lizards

Grades: 3rd Grade

Students compare the structures and functions of traits that enable organisms to survive in a specific environment. Analyzing the traits of animals provides evidence for how those traits vary, how

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Natural Selection Graphing

Diagnosing Huntington's Disease Using Gel Electrophoresis

Grades: 9th Grade, 10th Grade, 11th Grade, 12th Grade

Students will use Gel Electrophoresis to diagnose the dominant, fatal, genetic disorder of Huntington's Disease, a neurodegenerative disorder caused by an excessive number of CAG repeats in the DNA

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Disease Human Body

DNA Mutations

Grades: 8th Grade

Students will learn about DNA base pairs. As a team they will send a student to read a sequence of DNA/RNA and will have their group duplicate or sequence the complimentary base pair. Students will

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DNA Graphing Data

Exploring Mitosis with Virtual Reality

Grades: 9th Grade, 10th Grade, 11th Grade

This lesson is designed to uderstand the stages of mitosis by integrating Virtual Reality (VR) in the classroom. The students will be able to identify and describe the key events in each stage of

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Virtual Reality Mitosis Cells

Comparing Ways to Grow Potatoes for Pioneer Farmers

Grades: 4th Grade, 5th Grade

In this lesson, we will learn about different methods for growing potatoes, as the pioneer farmers would have needed to test during the time of the settlers in the United States and Westward Expansion

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Gardening