Description

Provide students with the conceptual framework to comprehend key NGSS topics and achieve Performance Expectations! Using two-dimensional modeling activities, students learn to explain, rather than memorize, key concepts and use their simplified two-dimensional model representations to make predictions. Looks at Inheritance of Traits and the Variation of Traits in Animals and Plants to answer: What kinds of characteristics do organisms inherit from their parents?; What kinds of characteristics might be affected by their environment?; Can you think of characteristics that might be affected by both inheritance and the environment?; and Why does one organism of the same species look different from another?.