Unit Plans

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My Biology students always get genetic drift confused with natural selection when discussing mechanism of evolution.

To help them distinguish between the two phenomena, I had them simulate genetic drift using craft beads and a dice.

This really helped my students visualize the effects of genetic drift on small populations.

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Do I bribe my students? Of course I do! 😉

When I have to be absent, I expect my students to be on their BEST behavior.

To ensure that they follow through on that expectation, I offer a little bribery…. I mean….. incentive 😁

I leave a sub report card that allows the substitute to rate each class. Classes receiving an A+ get rewarded with tickets 🎟️

I have received so many compliments from my subs since I started implementing this system. To get this free sub report card, head over to my blog:
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To practice crime scene sketches in Forensics, I threw 350 playing cards all over my classroom! (Those that know me, know that this made my OCD kick in to overdrive.)

Students were given a list of 8 playing card (aka: evidence) to find. Once they found their evidence, they had to mark it on their crime scene sketches.

Of course, I made them clean up the cards after the activity. 😉

I have a free download for this activity (It’s called One Eyed Jack) over on my blog.

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We are finally in our evolution unit and we’re getting things started with a lesson on natural selection.

To introduce this concept, students participated in an activity called FEEDING FRENZY.

Basically, students pretended to be worms looking for food (aka: colored yarn).

It was the perfect segue into our lesson!

To get all the details and a free download, head over to my blog:
www.thetrendyscienceteacher.com/naturalselection

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