Reproduction, heredity and evolution

This simulation helps students understand how Punnett Squares are used to predict the outcome of monohybrid genetic crosses. Please note Adobe Flash is required.

Scope and Sequence connection: 8:1 Reproduction, Heredity and Evolution.

During this interactive, students watch a video about genes and Punnett Squares then create a fictitious creature by manipulating the genetics of various features of the creature such as the ears, nose, mouth, fur, feet and eyes. Shared by McGraw Hill. Adobe Flash is required.

Scope and Sequence connection: 8:1 Reproduction, Heredity and Evolution.

Students play the mating game to learn how to pass on their genes for successful reproduction.  Shared by PBS. Please note Flash is required to play. 

Scope and Sequence connection: 8:1 Reproduction, Heredity and Evolution.

This interactive demonstrates cell size and scale. This could be used to prepare for the Living Environment Regents. Shared by the Genetic Science Learning Center at the University of Utah.

 Scope and Sequence connection: 8:1 Reproduction, Heredity and Evolution.
 

This text focuses on cells and how cells were discovered.  It is also available as an audio file. Click the "resources" menu tab for more resources and interactives to use with students. This can be used for high school biology/Living Environment students. Shared by Visionlearning. 

Scope and Sequence connection: 8:1 Reproduction, Heredity and Evolution.
 

This site shares student-friendly videos and interactives about genetics. Shared by the Genetic Science Learning Center at the University of Utah.  

Scope and Sequence connection: 8:1 Reproduction, Heredity and Evolution. 

A series of short videos and background information on DNA. Shared by the Genetic Science Learning Center at the University of Utah.

Scope and Sequence connection: 8:1 Reproduction, Heredity and Evolution.

Students read about DNA and build a digital DNA molecule. Shared by the Genetic Science Learning Center at the University of Utah. Please note Flash is required for this interactive.

Scope and Sequence connection: 8:1 Reproduction, Heredity and Evolution.

This PowerPoint presentation from Berkeley's Understanding Evolution website explains the fidelity of DNA replication in evolutionary terms. (Teachers can save the slide set to your computer to view the explanation and notes that go along with each slide.)

Scope and Sequence connection: 8:1 Reproduction, Heredity, and Evolution. Also relevant to Living Environment coursework.

In this game, your job is to make exact copies of a double-stranded DNA molecule by correctly matching base pairs to each strand, and to then determine which organism the DNA belongs to. This game could be used with Living Environment students. Flash is required for this game. Shared by nobelprize.org.

Scope and Sequence connection: 8:1 Reproduction, Heredity and Evolution. 

These hands-on activities encourage students to explore the structure, function and mutations of DNA.  Shared by the Genetic Science Learning Center at the University of Utah.

Scope and Sequence connection: 8:1 Reproduction, Heredity and Evolution. 

This short film (10 min.) shows how a rock pocket mouse is a living example of Darwin’s process of natural selection. An interactive version of this film, with pause points and quiz questions, is also available. Also available in Spanish.  By the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. 

Scope and Sequence connection: 8:1 Reproduction, Heredity and Evolution.

 

The A World of Science website is created by John Derian, a science teacher at The Brooklyn International High School.  His site shares a variety of teacher guides for project based science curriculum.

This particular link is to is an 11-week unit in which students design and sculpt an alien animal adapted to a specific Star Wars planet and identify its unique sequence of DNA by investigating ecology of different ecosystems, animal adaptations, and protein synthesis.  This unit can be implemented in high school Living Environment classes; parts of this unit discuss adaptations and natural selection.

Scope and Sequence connection: 8:1 Reproduction, Heredity and Evolution.

Anatomist and paleontologist Neil Shubin sees evidence of our ancient past in our anatomy and in our DNA. Join him in this Emmy award-winning three-part series, originally aired on PBS, as he journeys to meet our ancient animal ancestors, while revealing the impact those animals have had on our bodies. Shared by the Howard Hughes Medical Institue.

Scope and Sequence connection: 7:3 Dynamic Equilibrium: The Human Animal; 7:4 Dynamic Equilibrium: Other Organisims and 8:1 Reproduction, Heredity and Evolution.

This interactive explores different anatomical features of the human body and what they reveal about the evolutionary history we share with other organisms, including earlier, long-extinct species. Shared by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
 

Scope and Sequence connection: 7:3 Dynamic Equilibrium: The Human Animal; 7:4 Dynamic Equilibrium: Other Organisms and 8:1 Reproduction, Heredity and Evolution.

This video (hosted by John Green) describes the impact humans have had, both positive and negative, on the Earth during the last 200 years. Hosted by YouTube.

Scope and Sequence connection: 8:1 Reproduction, Heredity and Evolution.