UtSTA 2024: Out-Of-This-World Science Teaching

This unit is so popular with the students that the 9th biology teacher said the students who did this in 7th grade know punnet squares so well she didn't have to teach it this year! This unit was specifically designed to align and teach all of the standards in 7.4 as well as 7.5.1. It slowly works the students into it so that they get the hang of learning genetics as well as talking about sexual and asexual reproduction, mutations and how they could be beneficial or negative or neutral. The students get to create punnett squares for each mutation that occurs and use dice to determine which dragon is born as well as using dice to determine if they survive the natural hazards the students get to design.