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- Artificial Selection Notes Presentation with Fill-in-the-Blanks Worksheet*: This presentation (both PPT and Google Slides provided) gives students a brief introduction to the topic. As they view the presentation, students fill in blanks on a provided Cloze worksheet.
- Artificial Selection Reading and Questions*: Students read about artificial selection, how it works, examples, and technologies such as genetic engineering. Includes a corresponding worksheet with reading comprehension questions.
- Pros and Cons of Genetic Engineering Activity*: Students will read about genetic engineering at a basic, easy-to-understand level. Then, they’ll complete a graphic organizer and follow-up questions. Also includes a writing prompt about students’ position on genetic engineering.
- Artificial Selection Research Project*: Rigorous! Students research one example of how humans have altered the heredity of traits in organisms through artificial selection and create a presentation.
- Artificial Selection Quiz: This assessment has 12 multiple-choice questions. Two similar versions are provided.
*Skip the line at the copier! The starred resources include both print and digital Google Slides options to assign.
Related Standard:
- NGSS MS-LS4-5: Gather and synthesize information about technologies that have changed the way humans influence the inheritance of desired traits in organisms. Emphasis is on synthesizing information from reliable sources about the influence of humans on genetic outcomes in artificial selection (such as genetic modification, animal husbandry, gene therapy); and, on the impacts these technologies have on society as well as the technologies leading to these scientific discoveries.
Teacher Notes:
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