To fully understand genetics, students must be able to use the science practices to connect the proteins produced via gene expression and an organism’s traits.
During this workshop, we’ll explore free HHMI BioInteractive resources as part of a lesson sequence focused on helping students understand the relationship between molecular biology and classical genetics by exploring genetic diseases. Using best practices, we will demonstrate how three-dimensional phenomenon-driven instruction makes student thinking and learning visible. Along the way, we’ll engage with several science practices including modeling, analyzing data, and constructing explanations as we model classroom implementation strategies to help students build mastery of genetics, and to prepare for the ATLAS biology assessment.
Workshop participants will also engage as practitioners to reflect on how to incorporate and adapt resources and strategies shared in the workshop into their classes to deepen student understanding of how the inheritance of traits is the result of the mechanism of gene expression.
This workshop is for teachers who teach any level of high school biology (introductory, AP/IB, etc.). Middle school teachers, particularly 8th grade life science teachers, are also welcome to attend. Breakfast and lunch will be provided. Breakfast will be available at 8:30AM and the workshop will begin promptly at 9:00AM and will run until 3:00PM.
TESS components addressed include: 1E,4D,4E