Inheritance and Variation Unit
Inheritance and Variation Learning Links:
Animal Classification & Variation: Adaptations & Living Things:
IXL:
- Interactions Between Living Things
- Organization of Living Things
- Earth's Surface
- Living Things in Their Environment
- The Changing Environment
- How Living Things Function
- Plants & Animals
- Beaks & Teeth
- Health and Growth
- Looking at Plants and Animals
- Labeling Animals
IXL:
- M.1 Observe & compare traits
- M.2 What affects traits? Use observations to support a hypothesis
- O.1 Match offspring to parents using inherited traits
- O.2 Identify inherited & acquired traits
- O.3 Inherited & acquired traits: Use evidence to support a statement
- O.4 Read a plant pedigree chart
- O.5 Read an animal pedigree chart
Inheritance and Variation Lesson Topics:
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Inheritance and Variation Unit Extension Activities:
Inheriting Traits Lesson Extensions:
Science:
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Language Arts:
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Environment & Variation Lesson Extensions:
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Consequences of Variation Lesson Extensions:
Science:
- Play variations of the Mice Hunt game using different colors of ground cover and mice
Mathematics:
- Analyze flamingo populations in a double bar graph
- Create double bar graphs of data you collect about your inherited traits
Language Arts:
- Write a story about a unique variation you wish a pet dog, cat, bird, or any other type of pet would have
Inheritance and Variation Big Ideas:
Inheriting Traits Big Ideas:
- Similar organisms vary in how they look.
- Organisms inherit traits from their parents.
- Similar organisms vary in how they look because they have different inherited traits.
Environment & Variation Big Ideas:
- Inheritance and the environment can influence the traits of living things.
Consequences of Variation Big Ideas:
- Differences in traits between individuals can cause some to survive better than others.
- Variation in a trait of the same organism can help some individuals survive better than others.
Inheritance and Variation Vocabulary:
Inheriting Traits Lesson Cluster Vocabulary:
- Diagram - A drawing that shows how things are related to one another.
- Evidence - Facts or observations to support an explanation.
- Inherit - To receive a trait from one's parents.
- Life cycle - An organism's pattern of birth, growth, reproduction and death.
- Litter - A group of babies born to an animal at one time.
- Offspring - The young of a plant or animal.
- Organism - Any living thing.
- Pattern - Something that has regularly repeating characteristics. A sequence of events that repeats.
- Reproduce - To produce offspring.
- Sapling - A young tree.
- Siblings - Offspring that have the same parents. Brothers and sisters.
- Snout - The nose of an animal that sticks out and also contains the mouth and jaw.
- Sprout - A seed that has begun to grow. A sprout has a root and primary leaves.
- Table - A chart with rows and columns used to organize data.
- Trait - A feature that identifies how an organism looks, acts, or functions.
- Variation - A difference in a trait.
inheriting_traits_cluster_vocabulary.pdf |
Environment & Variation Lesson Cluster Vocabulary:
- Molt - To shed fur, feathers, or skin.
- Nutrients - Substances such as food, minerals, and vitamins that organisms need to grow and survive.
- Parasite - An organism that grows and feeds on or in another organism (its host), without helping the host’s survival.
- Pigment - Something in a plant or animal that produces a color.
- Seed - The part of a plant from which a new plant can grow.
- Wilt - To become limp or to droop.
environment_and_variation_cluster_vocabulary.pdf |
Consequences of Variation Lesson Cluster Vocabulary:
- Camouflage - The ability of an organism to blend into, or look like, its surroundings so it cannot be easily seen.
- Double bar graph - A type of graph that compares two sets of data.
- Habitat - The place where an organism gets the things it needs to survive.
- Population - The number of organisms that live in a place.
- Predator - An animal that hunts and eats other animals for food.
- Prey - An animal hunted or eaten by other animals for food.
- Survive - To continue to live or exist.
consequences_of_variation_cluster_vocabulary.pdf |