In this activity students will research the ethical and practical arguments in favor of cloning and against cloning. They will understand the argumentative and persuasive use of language through developing an ad campaign to try to persuade the audience to either support or refute cloning. Students will research, identify key points, and develop their own ad.

"All of our inheritable traits are stored in these nifty things called genes . You get half of a gene, called an allele , from each of your parents, and it is the way your two alleles interact that determines what kind of a trait you will get from that gene!
Alleles  tend to be either ""dominant"" or ""recessive."" This means that usually one allele in a pair is bossier  than the other and will override it altogether. Therefore, when we show a dominant allele in writing it will have a capital  letter. A recessive allele gets a timid lower case one.
On a grander scale, genes  can fight  with one another in the same way that alleles do. One gene can tell another to change how it behaves! Sometimes a bossy gene will hide the effects of other genes. So to tell what the meek genes are doing, you may need to keep a particularly bossy gene out of the picture.
On the other hand, if a gene only likes to boss around certain other genes, you'll never know what it's doing unless those other genes are active! For example , if I like to force all red hair genes into making blonde hair instead, but there are no red hair genes around, then I'm not going to be doing much of anything, am I?
Now then, are you ready to start exploring the way genes change a horse's color?

Students will compare and contrast adult plants and seedlings/young plants using pictures, journaling, growing plants in the classroom and comparing experimental plant growth with natural plant growth to learn why plants survive and where.

Using three-dimensional scaffolds, these materials address the following topics:  - Structure & Function of DNA. - DNA Replication via Polymerase. - Transcription & Translation.  - Codons & Amino Acids Sequences. Each packet is broken into five parts - data dive, core ideas, investigations, asssessments, and life connections. Formative assessments and checkpoints are embedded throughout each packet. The final packet prepares students for a summative assessment, with a provided practice assessment. Implementation instructions are embedded for each component of each packet. PDFs are included as attachments (in case the file formats are altered by this system). 

Using three-dimensional scaffolds, these materials address the following topics:  - Relationships between DNA, proteins, and traits.- How mitosis enables each cell to receive a copy of DNA.- How gametes like sperm and eggs are formed and transmit parents' genes to offspring.  - Predicting traits based on parents' genotypes and phenotypes using Punnett squares.  Each packet is broken into five parts - data dive, core ideas, investigations, asssessments, and life connections. Formative assessments and checkpoints are embedded throughout each packet. The final packet prepares students for a summative assessment, with a provided practice assessment.Implementation instructions are embedded for each component of each packet. PDFs are included as attachments (in case the file formats are altered by this system). 

Students investigate one trait in heredity, using models and quick results with a computer-generated game. Students have practice in predicting and creating solutions to specific heredity questions. The game becomes increasingly more challenging as it progresses.