Tails' Inheritance: Challenging Secondary School Students' Ideas About the Inheritance of Acquired Traits

Tails' Inheritance: Challenging Secondary School Students' Ideas About the Inheritance of Acquired Traits

The purpose of this article is to outline a lesson plan that is designed to challenge one commonly held naïve idea, namely, the inheritance of acquired traits. The lesson plan described is part of a short curricular unit consisting of approximately 10-12 class periods. In the lesson plans below, tea...

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Veröffentlicht in:The American biology teacher 2007-02, Vol.69 (2), p.76-79
Hauptverfasser: Stern, Luli, Ben-Akiva, Iris
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
Adaptation (Biology)
Birth weight
Body Weight
Classroom Communication
College students
Education
Environmental conditions
Evolutionary adaptation
Genetic inheritance
Giraffes
Heredity
High School Students
Inheritances
Learning
Lesson Plans
Mice
Middle school students
Middle Schools
Natural selection
Neck
Organisms
Population
Population characteristics
Population dynamics
Prior Learning
Science education
Sciences education
Scientists
Secondary school students
Secondary Schools
Study and teaching
Teaching Guides
Teaching Methods
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Zusammenfassung:The purpose of this article is to outline a lesson plan that is designed to challenge one commonly held naïve idea, namely, the inheritance of acquired traits. The lesson plan described is part of a short curricular unit consisting of approximately 10-12 class periods. In the lesson plans below, teacher's guide material is included in italics.
ISSN:0002-7685
1938-4211
DOI:10.1662/0002-7685%282007%2969%5B76%3ATICSSS%5D2.0.CO%3B2