DNA Model and the Building of Traits l DNA coloring

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Do you want to provide your students with accessible and engaging activities that model how traits are built?

The DNA, Proteins, and Traits lesson includes an interactive activity, reading passage, and teacher presentation to help your students discover how traits are made from DNA.

The lesson includes the following:

• Trait Building Modeling Activity
• Reading passage – PDF and digital formats
• Graphic note-taking page
• Teacher presentations – PowerPoint and Google Slides

In the DNA, Traits, and Proteins lesson students investigate the question “How are Traits Build from DNA Instructions?” The lesson begins with a trait building activity. Students are given a kit containing instructions and small shapes. Working with partners or groups, students follow the instructions to create a final product then share their creation with others and discuss why products might look different amongst different groups.

Students investigate the process a cell goes through to create traits in the DNA, Traits, and Proteins reading passage and teacher presentation. The reading passage is available as a printable PDF and a digital link you can share with your middle school students, saving on copies and paper! The presentation is available as a PowerPoint and Google Slides. Students will complete a graphic note page as the read and/or follow the presentation. The graphic note page is a perfect addition to a science student’s interactive notebook.

Students finish this lesson by repeating the modeling activity, this time focusing specifically on the ways each part models an event or part of the cell.

Also included are the Teacher Tip Pages, providing you with lots of support, tips, and ideas, so that you can easily implement this heredity and genetics lesson into your science classroom!

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