Description
Your students will love learning about artificial selection with these engaging activities. This comprehensive 5E packet on artificial selection is specially designed to align with the NGSS Middle School MS-LS4-5 standard.
“Gather and synthesize information about technologies that have changed the way humans influence the inheritance of desired traits in organisms”.
Easy to follow and fun to use and teach with. You don’t have to add anything.
Topics Covered
- How humans have shaped evolution
- Gene Therapy
- How Gene Therapy works
- GMOs
- Are GMOs safe? What does the evidence say.
Here’s what’s included in this packet:
- Engagement activity including an editable I CAN objective statement
- Explore – science station lab (see below)
- Explain – fully editable powerpoint
- Elaborate -editable student choice board
- Evaluate
- Notes
Science Stations
- Read It – at this station the students will read about how dogs became domesticated.
- Watch It – students will watch a short (2m) video on CRISPR and gene editing.
- Tech It – students visit a website to read about GM food.
- Explain It – At this station the students read an article showing how humans have changed wheat over the years.
- Illustrate It – students read descriptions of gene therapy and create an illustration based on the descriptions.
Related Products
- Fossil Record NGSS MS-LS4-1 Editable
- Evidence of Evolution Anatomy and Embryology NGSS MS-LS4-2 and MS-LS4-3
- Natural Selection NGSS MS-LS4-4 and NGSS MS-LS4-6
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