All Levels

Genetic Traits Activity and Database

 

High School

• Sickle Cell Anemia: A Case Approach to Teaching High School Genetics
• Coming in Fall, 2001: The Genetics of Taste, a high school activity for teaching genetics and the scientific method

Middle School
Toothpick Fish. Teach genetics and natural selection in the context of an environmental disaster than pollutes a stream.

Elementary School
Coming soon, genetics activities for upper elementary students. The first activities available will be Pasta Genetics and Build-an-Animal.

General
Genetics Glossary

Tools for Teachers
Curriculum Mapping Template (pdf). Teachers of all grades from Washington state can now easily map their classroom activities to the Washington Essential Learnings in science using this convenient, one-page form.

Other Activities
Although the activities above have been developed by ourselves, we also use or modify activities that have been developed by others. For example, in our high school bioethics module, we use the breast cancer genetic testing activity developed by the NIH and available free in its Human Genetic Variation curriculum supplement.

Download Page
For download of classroom activities in pdf format.