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Thanksgiving Science Activity Using Punnett Squares to Build a Turkey

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The Skye World Science
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7th - 10th, Homeschool
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I used this with my 7th graders during their genetics section right before Thanksgiving. It was a fun and engaging activity that they thoroughly enjoyed.
This is a great resource! My students benefited greatly from this assignment! Great supplement to my teaching.
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Description

In this activity, students will learn to set up and solve a monohybrid Punnett square for classical genetics problems to find the colors of eight tail feathers for their turkey. After completing this activity, 7th grade science and biology students will be able to calculate the genotypes and phenotypes produced in each single trait problem about inheritance.

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  • Answer keys included
  • Recommended for 7th grade science and biology classes

TEKS Covered

7.14A

7.14B

B.6F

NGSS Standards Covered

MS-LS3-2

HS – LS3-2

Materials

white card stock for turkey print out, crayons, markers, scissors, glue

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40 minutes
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to see state-specific standards (only available in the US).
Write a function that describes a relationship between two quantities.
Make strategic use of digital media (e.g., textual, graphical, audio, visual, and interactive elements) in presentations to enhance understanding of findings, reasoning, and evidence and to add interest.
Synthesize information from a range of sources (e.g., texts, experiments, simulations) into a coherent understanding of a process, phenomenon, or concept, resolving conflicting information when possible.
Reason abstractly and quantitatively. Mathematically proficient students make sense of quantities and their relationships in problem situations. They bring two complementary abilities to bear on problems involving quantitative relationships: the ability to decontextualize-to abstract a given situation and represent it symbolically and manipulate the representing symbols as if they have a life of their own, without necessarily attending to their referents-and the ability to contextualize, to pause as needed during the manipulation process in order to probe into the referents for the symbols involved. Quantitative reasoning entails habits of creating a coherent representation of the problem at hand; considering the units involved; attending to the meaning of quantities, not just how to compute them; and knowing and flexibly using different properties of operations and objects.
Model with mathematics. Mathematically proficient students can apply the mathematics they know to solve problems arising in everyday life, society, and the workplace. In early grades, this might be as simple as writing an addition equation to describe a situation. In middle grades, a student might apply proportional reasoning to plan a school event or analyze a problem in the community. By high school, a student might use geometry to solve a design problem or use a function to describe how one quantity of interest depends on another. Mathematically proficient students who can apply what they know are comfortable making assumptions and approximations to simplify a complicated situation, realizing that these may need revision later. They are able to identify important quantities in a practical situation and map their relationships using such tools as diagrams, two-way tables, graphs, flowcharts and formulas. They can analyze those relationships mathematically to draw conclusions. They routinely interpret their mathematical results in the context of the situation and reflect on whether the results make sense, possibly improving the model if it has not served its purpose.

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