Biology Projects
Summary of Projects
Title | Format | Description / Recommendations |
DNA Extraction Lab #1 | Experiment |
Extract the 'master set of instructions' (DNA) from split peas in your own kitchen! |
DNA Extraction Lab #2 | Experiment |
Introducing a variable into the extraction of DNA |
Make a Karyotype | Guided Practice | Make a karyotype by matching chromosomes based on size, banding patterns and centromere positions as guides. |
Research a Genetic Disease |
Research and Report | Research and report on a genetic disease using the internet and an electronic format for your presentation. |
Create a Children's Book |
Create | Create a children's book blending the First People's legend of the Spirit Bear and the genetics of the Spirit Bear. |
Making A Mutation | Guided Practice | This guided practice will give you a chance to see how each type of gene mutation -deletion, addition and substitution - can occur. |
An Inventory of My Traits | Survey |
Take an inventory of easily-observable genetic traits and represent the data graphically and mathematically. |