Activity Description of "Easter Egg Genetics"
| Title | Easter Egg Genetics |
| Audience | Introduction to Punnett Squares |
| Abstract | This is a small activity to do immediately following
your introduction to the concepts of dominance,
recessiveness, related vocabulary and Punnett Squares.
It uses different colored halves of plastic eggs
(and their tasty candies inside!) to reinforce these
concepts in a quick, fun and memorable way. |
| Author | Anne Buchanan |
| Email | abuchaAE@ix.netcom.com |
| Unifying Concept | Evidence, models, and explanation |
| Science and Technology | Understandings about science and technology |
| Science as Inquiry | Understandings about scientific inquiry |
| History and Nature of Science | |
| Science in Personal and Social Perspectives | |
| Life, Physical, Earth Sciences | Molecular basis of heredity, Reproduction and heredity |
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