Mollie Deuel's Teaching Portfolio

Here is an example of a POE lesson plan I created.

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Topic: Mendelian Inheritence

Grade level: High School

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Students will be learning about Mendelian inheritance.  This POE lesson and lab will be to introduce students to the Genetics unit.

 

Virginia Standards of Learning (SOLs):

BIO.5       The student will investigate and understand common mechanisms of inheritance and protein synthesis. Key concepts include

d)  prediction of inheritance of traits based on the Mendelian laws of heredity

 

BIO.1       The student will demonstrate an understanding of scientific reasoning, logic, and the nature of science by planning and conducting investigations in which:

 

b) hypotheses are formulated based on direct observations and information from scientific literature; variables are defined and investigations are designed to test hypotheses;

e) conclusions are formed based on recorded quantitative and qualitative data;

g) validity of data is determined

i) appropriate technology including computers, graphing calculators, and probeware, is used for gathering and analyzing data, communicating results, modeling concepts, and simulating experimental conditions;

m)  current applications of biological concepts are used.

 

Learning Objectives:

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Understand:

• Organisms inherit traits from their parents

• Genes can be distributed somewhat randomly between offspring.

 

Know:

• Mendel’s laws of heredity are based on his mathematical analysis of observations of patterns of inheritance of traits. Geneticists apply mathematical principles of probability to Mendel’s laws of heredity in order to predict the results of simple genetic crosses. The laws of probability govern simple genetic recombinations.

 

Do:

• explain how the Mendelian laws of heredity apply to the patterns of inheritance.

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Full Lesson Plan Here

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