Week 8

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 1. What did you learn this week? 

This week we learned so much. First we started by looking at our fast growing plants. Ours looked great. The bottom looks to be dying a little bit but we have lots of seeds growing at the top. There is also more flowers blooming. Then we started learning about DNA and the make up of it. We learned that adenine has to be paired with thyine. Guanine has to be paired with cytosine in a DNA strand. To learn this we made DNA strands out of candy using twirlers, dots, and toothpicks. This helped us see how each pair had to be formed together. The next thing we learned was about genes. For this activity my partner and I had to flip a coin to determine how each gene looked. For example, one of the categories was face shape. The mother got a R gene and the father had a R gene as well which meant that the genotype of RR and the phenotype was that the child had a round face. This was a fun activity to see how each parent had an effect on how the child looked. 

2. Are you able to relate what you learned to what you already knew? 

I already knew about the genes we get from our parents but I liked how we were able to see the effects of the genes. I liked being able to visualize and see all of the different combinations. I also learned that there can be more then two or three makeups. For skin color there were so many more. 

3. How can you apply what you've learned to your teaching in the future?

I think both activities could be fun to do in the future classroom. I think the DNA strained was such a good visual and students can make it out of so many different things. I think the baby gene traits could be fun to do as well and I would change it to the child goes home and talks to their parents about it. The child can look at their parents features and look to see what genes they got. Then they can do the flipping the coin with their parents as well. It's such a fun activity that anyone can do. 


Baby Lab 

Fast growing plant 


DNA strand 





Comments

  1. Claire HaagOctober 16, 2024 at 1:21 PM

    Hi Faith! I agree that both activities we did in class would be really go in an elementary classroom. I think having kids look at their parents traits to decide would be such a fun way to incorporate kids families into the classroom. Great post!

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  2. Emma PhillipsOctober 16, 2024 at 3:27 PM

    Hi Faith!
    I agree that both activities would be fun and engaging to do in an elementary classrooms. I think the students would be excited to do both of them.

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