You be the Teacher: GENETICS

Your goal is to be voted the “Teachers of the Year.” Your pictures will be placed on the Hall of Fame and
you’ll be the envy of all your fellow students.

Requirements:
 Lesson Plan
o Warm Up
o Mini-Lesson
o Activity
o Closing and Homework
 45 minute Lesson (Teaching the Class!!)

We will provide you with:

 Lesson Plan Template
 Activities to choose from

Important DUE DATES:

Answer Questions (3 days)
Choose an Activity (1 day)
General Lesson Planning (5 Days)
Activity Day (Ready to practice the activity you chose to present) (1 Day)
Hand-written Lesson Plan Draft Due /Supplies Prepared (Photocopies, materials, posters…) (1 Day)
Rehearsal/Preparation Complete (1 Day)
Presentations (6 Days)
Revised Lesson Plan, Summary of Feedback and Evaluations (1 Day)

Team Leader:
Each ‘Team’ will choose a ‘Team Leader’ that will be responsible for their group.
Responsibilities:
 Keeps everyone on task
 Collects and passes out group materials and work
 Communicates with the teacher
 Assigns a ‘Daily Participation Grade’ for each member of the group
 Collects and grades homework for the group when necessary

DNA Structure

1. What are the building blocks of DNA? (What is DNA made up of?)
2. What are the 3 parts of a nucleotide?
3. What are the 4 bases that make up DNA?
4. What bases pair with each other? (What are the base pairing rules?)
5. What is a gene?
6. What is the shape of DNA? What are the names of the scientists that discovered this
structure?
7. How much DNA is in a cell? How does all of this DNA fit inside the cell?
 
You be the Teacher: GENETICS
Your goal is to be voted the “Teachers of the Year.” Your pictures will be placed on the Hall of Fame and
you’ll be the envy of all your fellow students.

Requirements:
 Lesson Plan
o Warm Up
o Mini-Lesson
o Activity
o Closing and Homework
 45 minute Lesson (Teaching the Class!!)

We will provide you with:

 Lesson Plan Template
 Activities to choose from

Important DUE DATES:

Answer Questions (3 days)
Choose an Activity (1 day)
General Lesson Planning (5 Days)
Activity Day (Ready to practice the activity you chose to present) (1 Day)
Hand-written Lesson Plan Draft Due /Supplies Prepared (Photocopies, materials, posters…) (1 Day)
Rehearsal/Preparation Complete (1 Day)
Presentations (6 Days)
Revised Lesson Plan, Summary of Feedback and Evaluations (1 Day)

Team Leader:
Each ‘Team’ will choose a ‘Team Leader’ that will be responsible for their group.
Responsibilities:
 Keeps everyone on task
 Collects and passes out group materials and work
 Communicates with the teacher
 Assigns a ‘Daily Participation Grade’ for each member of the group
 Collects and grades homework for the group when necessary

RNA Structure and Amino Acids

1. What is RNA?
2. What are the building blocks of RNA?
3. What is RNA used for?
4. What are the bases in RNA?
5. What is a gene?
6. What are the 3 types of RNA? What are they used for?
 7. How is RNA different from DNA (3 ways)?
8. How do you use an amino acid table?
 
You be the Teacher: GENETICS
Your goal is to be voted the “Teachers of the Year.” Your pictures will be placed on the Hall of Fame and
you’ll be the envy of all your fellow students.

Requirements:
 Lesson Plan
o Warm Up
o Mini-Lesson
o Activity
o Closing and Homework
 45 minute Lesson (Teaching the Class!!)

We will provide you with:

 Lesson Plan Template
 Activities to choose from

Important DUE DATES:

Answer Questions (3 days)
Choose an Activity (1 day)
General Lesson Planning (5 Days)
Activity Day (Ready to practice the activity you chose to present) (1 Day)
Hand-written Lesson Plan Draft Due /Supplies Prepared (Photocopies, materials, posters…) (1 Day)
Rehearsal/Preparation Complete (1 Day)
Presentations (6 Days)
Revised Lesson Plan, Summary of Feedback and Evaluations (1 Day)

Team Leader:
Each ‘Team’ will choose a ‘Team Leader’ that will be responsible for their group.
Responsibilities:
 Keeps everyone on task
 Collects and passes out group materials and work
 Communicates with the teacher
 Assigns a ‘Daily Participation Grade’ for each member of the group
 Collects and grades homework for the group when necessary

Intro to Genetics and Punnett Squares

1. Explain the following terms: homozygous, heterozygous, phenotype, genotype

2. What is a Punnett square? What is it used for? How is a Punnett square set up?
3. How is a Punnett square set up when two traits are considered?
4. Explain how 2 tall pea plants can produce a short pea plant. Explain what percentage of
the offspring is expected to be tall and what percentage is expected to be short.
5. Explain the following terms and give an example of each: incomplete dominance,
codominance, multiple alleles
 You be the Teacher: GENETICS
Your goal is to be voted the “Teachers of the Year.” Your pictures will be placed on the Hall of Fame and
you’ll be the envy of all your fellow students.

Requirements:
 Lesson Plan
o Warm Up
o Mini-Lesson
o Activity
o Closing and Homework
 45 minute Lesson (Teaching the Class!!)

We will provide you with:

 Lesson Plan Template
 Activities to choose from

Important DUE DATES:

Answer Questions (3 days)
Choose an Activity (1 day)
General Lesson Planning (5 Days)
Activity Day (Ready to practice the activity you chose to present) (1 Day)
Hand-written Lesson Plan Draft Due /Supplies Prepared (Photocopies, materials, posters…) (1 Day)
Rehearsal/Preparation Complete (1 Day)
Presentations (6 Days)
Revised Lesson Plan, Summary of Feedback and Evaluations (1 Day)

Team Leader:
Each ‘Team’ will choose a ‘Team Leader’ that will be responsible for their group.
Responsibilities:
 Keeps everyone on task
 Collects and passes out group materials and work
 Communicates with the teacher
 Assigns a ‘Daily Participation Grade’ for each member of the group
 Collects and grades homework for the group when necessary

DNA Replication and Mutations

1. What is the structure of DNA? How does the structure allow the
DNA to be replicated easily?
2. What are the base-pairing rules for DNA?
a. Explain how the base-pairing rules allow DNA to make
two exact copies of itself.
3. Explain the role that enzymes play in replication.
4. What is a mutation? What causes mutations?
5. Describe different types of mutations (gene, chromosome, frame-shift, point).
 6. What is crossing-over/recombination? What does this accomplish?
You be the Teacher: GENETICS
Your goal is to be voted the “Teachers of the Year.” Your pictures will be placed on the Hall of Fame and
you’ll be the envy of all your fellow students.

Requirements:
 Lesson Plan
o Warm Up
o Mini-Lesson
o Activity
o Closing and Homework
 45 minute Lesson (Teaching the Class!!)

We will provide you with:

 Lesson Plan Template
 Activities to choose from

Important DUE DATES:

Answer Questions (3 days)
Choose an Activity (1 day)
General Lesson Planning (5 Days)
Activity Day (Ready to practice the activity you chose to present) (1 Day)
Hand-written Lesson Plan Draft Due /Supplies Prepared (Photocopies, materials, posters…) (1 Day)
Rehearsal/Preparation Complete (1 Day)
Presentations (6 Days)
Revised Lesson Plan, Summary of Feedback and Evaluations (1 Day)

Team Leader:
Each ‘Team’ will choose a ‘Team Leader’ that will be responsible for their group.
Responsibilities:
 Keeps everyone on task
 Collects and passes out group materials and work
 Communicates with the teacher
 Assigns a ‘Daily Participation Grade’ for each member of the group
 Collects and grades homework for the group when necessary

Protein Synthesis

1. DNA Basics: What is DNA? What is DNA made up of? What are the base pairing
rules?
2. What is transcription? Explain how DNA is used to make RNA.
3. How is DNA different from RNA?
4. What is translation? How is a protein made from RNA?
5. What is the job of the ribosome during translation?
6. What is a codon?
7. What role does tRNA play in translation? What is an anticodon?
8. Where in the cell does transcription occur? Where in the cell does translation occur?
 You be the Teacher: GENETICS
Your goal is to be voted the “Teachers of the Year.” Your pictures will be placed on the Hall of Fame and
you’ll be the envy of all your fellow students.

Requirements:
 Lesson Plan
o Warm Up
o Mini-Lesson
o Activity
o Closing and Homework
 45 minute Lesson (Teaching the Class!!)

We will provide you with:

 Lesson Plan Template
 Activities to choose from

Important DUE DATES:

Answer Questions (3 days)
Choose an Activity (1 day)
General Lesson Planning (5 Days)
Activity Day (Ready to practice the activity you chose to present) (1 Day)
Hand-written Lesson Plan Draft Due /Supplies Prepared (Photocopies, materials, posters…) (1 Day)
Rehearsal/Preparation Complete (1 Day)
Presentations (6 Days)
Revised Lesson Plan, Summary of Feedback and Evaluations (1 Day)
Team Leader:
Each ‘Team’ will choose a ‘Team Leader’ that will be responsible for their group.
Responsibilities:
 Keeps everyone on task
 Collects and passes out group materials and work
 Communicates with the teacher
 Assigns a ‘Daily Participation Grade’ for each member of the group
 Collects and grades homework for the group when necessary

Genetic Engineering (Biotechnology, Gel Electrophoresis, Recombinant DNA)

1. What is genetic engineering?
2. What is gel electrophoresis?
a. What is used to cut the DNA cut?
b. How do the pieces of DNA move through the gel? Do the shorter or longer pieces
of DNA go further? Why?
c. How is a gel read?
d. What can gel electrophoresis be used for?
3. What is recombinant DNA?
a. What is used to cut the DNA?
b. What can recombinant DNA be used for?
c. How are bacteria “transformed”?
4. What is cloning? How do scientists do cloning?