Activity 1: Conduct a pre-concept map

Source:

Designed by HSTA teachers and Jenny Bardwell; Funded by a NIH- Science Education Partnership Award RR-12329-0, WV Legislature, Dwight D. Eisenhower Math & Science Act, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Coca-Cola,W. W. Kellogg, Benedum, and Stanley & Virginia Hostler Foundations

Purpose:

To motivate students' interest in genetic mutation by showing examples of amphibians with extra legs and mutated appendages, discolored plastic, and disformed plants. To stimulate ideas on the impact mutation has on different life systems on earth.

Materials:

web site: http://www.pca.state.mn.us/hot/frogphotos.html, discolored plastic, Inspiration concept map software (if desired)

Time Frame:

20 Minutes

Procedure/Assessment

WV IGO'S

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