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Genetics Worksheets and Activities

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Using our Biology Curriculum, your students will be introduced to genetics using a variety of activities and worksheets. This is one of my favorite topics to teach students.

Download your Punnett Square worksheet below!

Students will be engaged with a fun classroom trait survey. Students really love doing the trait survey and learning how unique they are.

After completing the trait survey your students will complete their guided notes that go along with all our USBT presentations.

Engage your students!

The presentations are designed in a way that will allow you to instruct at a reasonable pace while highlighting key points the key point they will need for their state assessment.

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You won’t be waiting for your students to write down every word on the slide, so they can spend more time listening and you can cover content at a faster pace.

After getting introduced to the key vocabulary terms your students will complete our Punnett square worksheet that will ease your students into completing Punnett squares.

Using our beach ball activity, your student will have fun and get lots of repetition on the key vocabulary terms.

Punnett Square Worksheet

As students gain confidence using exit activities and bell ringer worksheets student are introduced to our incomplete dominance, complete dominance worksheets and even dihybrid cross worksheets.

Prior to their assessment students will complete a series of worksheets that increase in difficulty as they try to be the first group to the finish the Punnett Square Competition. The first group done can be rewarded with a homework pass.

If you like the activities we have shared here you will love our Full Biology Curriculum.

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  • Daily Agenda PowerPoint
  • Detailed PowerPoint Notes with Guided Notes for Students
  • All the necessary worksheets, labs and activities with rubrics included
  • Multiple versions of assessments that are aligned with the content
  • Modified Assessment for you IEP students
  • Quizlets that have all the vocabulary, so your student can study the terms with ease
  • Exit activities for each day
  • Lesson extensions
  • Detailed lesson plans with instructional recommendations, classroom management tips and step by step instructions for successfully implementing the curriculum.

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Genetics

Punnett Squares

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Inheritance Patterns: Punnett Squares

Recently, my class was finishing up the unit on genetics and learning how to do a variety of punnett squares  and  I knew I needed to create a better way to review this concept.

So… I created this Punnett Square Challenge that my students love.

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Prior to completing this punnett square activity, students should have had exposure to examples, of complete dominance, incomplete dominance, co-dominance, multiple alleles and dihybrid crosses.

After students have had some practice with  punnet squares, this activity will serve as a review or a great gauge for \their understanding of the content.

In this activity,  students will complete each punnett square (1 through 6) in order.

Student will only receive one punnett square at a time and will only get the next one when they have correctly completed the preceding punnett square.

I have found that students generate great conversation when working together to complete these punnett squares, although it can be done independently.

Each new punnett square will add a degree of difficulty as they progress through the activity. I walk around with folders that contain the problems. As they get them correct I give them the next problem.

If students complete the activity within  first or second I offer them a homework pass or bonus points. I have done this as a race and timed and both way worked well. The homework pass incentive takes their effort up a notch.

Student always enjoy this and the discussions that take places are amazing.

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If you like this you will love our Biochemistry boxing activity!

Genetics, Inheritance, Interactive Notebook, Note Taking

Create a Pedigree Chart

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As an extension to inheritance of traits, students analysed and created a pedigree chart based on a passage that was given.  The pedigree was placed into their Interactive Notebook as pictured below.

On left: Students create a pedigree based on the story. On Right: A key making a pedigree chart.
On left: Students create a pedigree based on the story. On Right: A key for making a pedigree chart.
Genetics, Inheritance, Interactive Notebook

Punnett Square Practice-Interactive Notebook

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wpid-20130307_210610.jpgHere is an excellent set of  five punnett square practice problems students could complete after getting the basics down. I had my students color code them in their interactive notebooks.