Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Science Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 6–10 Professional Commentary: This lesson is designed to help students construct an understanding of how offspring inherit genes from their parents. Students examine a fictional pedigree and determine which gene is responsible for a given trait.... Career Fields: Agricultural & Environmental Systems, Health Science Projects: COR, Standards First 2 Mitosis & Cell Processes Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Science Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 9–10 Professional Commentary: This promising practice resource helps students understand the stages of mitosis and associated cell structures within the context of learning about cancer. Students actively explore mitosis by investigating three hypothetical plant-based medicines.... 3 Designer Genes for a Designer World Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Science Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 9–10 Professional Commentary: In this series of promising practice guided inquiry activities, students explore how organisms adapt to their environments through changes in their genetic codes. Students are expected to:create make-believe creatures and environments that have specific characteristics. rate the success of each creature in a randomly assigned environment by examining which of the creature's characteristics help, hinder, or have no effect on the creature's success in each environment.... 4 Modeling Mendel's Pea Experiment Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Science Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 6–10 Professional Commentary: This modeling activity allows students to discover for themselves what Mendel uncovered in his famous pea experiments. It is an excellent introduction to Mendelian genetics which generates discussion and stimulates interest in Mendel's principles.... Career Fields: Agricultural & Environmental Systems, Health Science Projects: Standards First 5 Protein Synthesis in the Cell Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Science Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 9–12 Professional Commentary: This promising practice resource explores how a cell uses information from the DNA to produce the proteins that help determine the traits of an organism; a process called protein synthesis. Students begin by learning what DNA is, what it looks like, and where it is located in the body.... Projects: COR 6 DNA and Protein Synthesis in the Cell Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Best Practice Discipline: Science Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 9–12 Professional Commentary: In this best practice lesson, students explore how DNA fits into chromosomes and how chromosomes relate to the human body. They learn about DNA replication and protein synthesis and model these two processes in Web activities.... Projects: COR Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Science Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades K–12 Professional Commentary: Life Has a History is a promising practice resource that provides students with an introduction to the history of life and how it results in the biodiversity of today. During the online tour students learn about geologic time, fossils, ancestral relationships, cladograms, variation, natural selection, and extinction. These topics are addressed at two different levels in this resource. Level 1 is appropriate for students in grades K - 4. Level 2 is appropriate for students in grades 5 - 12. (author/cb) 8 ODE Assessment Grade 8: Life Science, Adaptations Resource Type: Assessment Resource Discipline: Science Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 6–8 Professional Commentary: This question asks students to communicate how variations in structure, behavior or physiology increase the chances of survival in a particular environment. This is a multiple choice test item used in a past Ohio Achievement Test assessment (for more information, see IMS: Assessments). From this test item, a visitor may view the passages and stimuli, and information regarding general student performance on this item.... 9 Not An Old Person's Disease Resource Type: Content Resource Discipline: Science Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 6–10 Professional Commentary: Written as an informative story, this excellent content resource provides students with information about melanoma, a deadly type of skin cancer. Students are asked to read a part of the story and then asked to discuss questions aimed at comprehension.... Career Fields: Health Science Projects: Standards First 10 Biology in Motion: Mitosis and Meiosis Resource Type: Content Resource Discipline: Science Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 9–12 Professional Commentary: This interactive quiz provides students with a way to put their knowledge about mitosis and meiosis into practice. Students are required to drag virtual chromosomes from one cell to the next in order to gain a solid understanding of how hereditary is passed along during mitosis and meiosis.... |