The Common Core Series is the 2014 winner of the Smart Book Award from Academics’ Choice.You are purchasing the paperback format of this book. How to Use the
Heredity and Genetics - Common Core Lessons and Activities book:
• Work through the lessons and activities as a class to teach your students higher-order thinking, analysis, and 21st century skills necessary to meet new Common Core expectations.
• Allow students to work through the lessons independently to build and practice these new skills.
• Include technology, collaboration, presentations, and discussion in the activities as you desire - you can decide how in-depth to go.
• Watch your class develop new abilities to meet the rigor of Common Core State Standards, right before your eyes!
Click
HERE to view sample pages from this book.
Tips:
• Use some of the pages - or use them all - based on your grade, your students, your curriculum, and your needs.
• Use these pages at their current size, or if you prefer them to be 8.5" X 11", enlarge them 125% on your copy machine.
• To download the graphic organizers labeled "GO" in the Table of Contents click
HERE.
• Use the correlations grid to easily see which Common Core standards are covered in each lesson.
The
Heredity and Genetics - Common Core Lessons and Activities includes:
• Reading for Information
• Higher-Order Thinking
• Writing Problems
• Primary Source Analysis
• Vocabulary
• Graphic Organizers
• Map Activities
• & More!
Here is the Table of Contents for the
Heredity and Genetics - Common Core Lessons and Activities book:What Is Heredity?: Reading Informational Text
Traits: Main Idea & Details
GPassing It On: Applying Concepts
GClass Survey: Data & Analysis
GBehaviors: Concepts & Processes
Comparing Traits: Compare & Contrast
GO1Mendel's Experiment: Reading Informational Text
Punnett's Predictions: Applying Concepts
Genes: Cause & Effect G
Nature? Nurture? Choice?: Primary Source Analysis
Ideas about Genetics: Graphic Organizer
GDNA & RNA: The Keys to Life: Applying Concepts
GO1Mitosis: Data Analysis
Genetic Disorders:Reading Informational Text
Blood Types: Interpreting Visual Information
Geneticists: Summarizing Information
GGenetics in Use: Main Idea
GStructures in Genetics: Vocabulary
GCommon Core State Standards Correlations
G: Includes Graphic Organizer
GO: Graphic Organizer is also available 8 1/2" x 11" online download
HERE.
(numbers above correspond to the graphic organizer numbers online)