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From Genes to Jeans: An Activity-Based Unit on Genetic Engineering and Agriculture.
John Vogt and Mary Yale. Sacramento, Calif.: California Foundation for Agriculture in the Classroom, 1995.
Program Overview
From Genes to Jeans: An Activity-Based Unit on Genetic Engineering and Agriculture is one of many individual instructional units from the California Foundation for Agriculture in the Classroom. This self-contained unit helps students learn about agriculture and its role in American society.
Teacher's Guide
Recommended grade level:
7-8+.
From Genes to Jeans introduces students to genetics and genetic engineering. During the unit, students examine and graph personal and family traits. They use Punnett squares to predict possible phenotypic outcomes for a variety of plant breedings. Students also role-play as birds to demonstrate survival of the fittest in a changing environment. In other activities, they build a model of a portion of a DNA molecule from a strawberry and then genetically alter it to produce a hypothetical trait change. They also role-play a design-and-production team as they select an idea for a genetically improved agricultural product and plan how they would market it. Agricultural examples are used throughout the unit.
Divided into 5 sequential lessons, From Genes to Jeans takes 20 to 22 class periods to complete. Each lesson includes background information for the teacher, procedures, and reproducible student worksheets. A short list of resources and references for the teacher is also included.
Key to Content Standards: 5-8 (see app. C)
UNIFYING CONCEPTS AND PROCESSES: Evidence, models, and explanation; evolution and equilibrium.
SCIENCE AS INQUIRY: Abilities necessary to do scientific inquiry; understandings about scientific inquiry.
LIFE SCIENCE: Structure and function in living systems; reproduction and heredity; diversity and adaptations of organisms.
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY: Understandings about science and technology.
SCIENCE IN PERSONAL AND SOCIAL PERSPECTIVES: Risks and benefits; science and technology in society.
Price:
$8.
Publisher/supplier:
California Foundation for Agriculture in the Classroom.
Materials:
Available locally, or from commercial suppliers.
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