Aliens in Glendale!
LIES! Everyone said that the aliens fell in Roswell, New Mexico, but that wasn’t
true at all. In fact, they fell right outside of Phoenix, in a city called Glendale… right
in the middle of her school’s basketball court. Miss Jerlinga was the first scientist
on the case, with her helpful (wo)Men in Black Special Ops Team: Maramlysalie,
Sunshine & Cloudy Day, Dimples, Ms. Attitude, and Albert Andstein.
Less than 2 feet tall, the aliens all seemed slow and messed up from being on a
new planet. So, Miss J and the scientists caught the aliens and put them in the
teacher’s lounge to see what would happen. As the scientists peered through the
windows, they noticed that the life-spans of the aliens were very short—they only
seemed to live about 10 minutes.
To keep their population going, they made offspring by clapping the hand-like organs that grew out of
their backs . Moments later, new aliens would come leaping out of the pouch one had on its stomach.
Your goal: Help Miss J, Maramlysalie, Sunshine
& Cloudy Day, Dimples, Ms. Attitude and Albert
Andstein figure out…
 What alien traits are DOMINANT and RECESSIVE.
 Predict what aliens would pop up next.
To solve, you may use any or all of the following strategies:
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Make charts
Make Punnet squares
Draw diagrams or pictures
Rewrite information in different way
ORGANIZE YOUR INFORMATION FROM THE OBSERVATIONS
ON A SEPARATE SHEET OF PAPER
Team Observations
Dimples’ observations:
 Aliens seem to have either three googly eyes that stick out of tubes from their heads or
eight googly eyes on tubes.
 Aliens either had star shaped heads or heads shaped like light bulbs.
 Some aliens were green and others were purple.
 Aliens either sang or made clicking sounds
 Some of the aliens smelled like cotton candy and others smelled like old gym shoes.
 Aliens either hopped like kangaroos or crept like a jungle cat searching for prey
Sunshine & Cloudy Day’s Observations:
 A green alien with a light bulb head clapped hands with a purple light bulb alien
and saw a purple star-head alien pop out of a pouch.
 Two 3-googly eyed green monsters clapped and two more 3-googly eyed green
monsters popped out. A green alien with a green alien makes green alien, but a
purple alien with a purple alien sometimes made purple, but sometimes made
green.
 An alien that sang clapped with an alien who clicked, and produced one of each.
Maramlysalie’s Observations
 A purple alien that smelled like cotton candy clapped with a purple alien that
smelled like old gym shoes and a green alien that smelled like shoes hopped out.
 A light bulb headed alien that smelled of cotton candy clapped with a star headed
alien that smelled of cotton candy, and a light bulbed head alien smelling of cotton
candy hopped out.
 Light bulb heads could produce light bulb heads or star heads, but star heads never
produced light bulb heads.
 Aliens that smelled of shoes never came from two aliens who smelled of cotton
candy, but aliens who smelled of shoes COULD sometimes create the good smelling
aliens.
Ms. Attitude & Albert Andstein’s Observations
 A hopping 8-eyed alien clapped a crouching 8-eyed alien and a 3eyed, crouching alien popped up.
 Crouching, prey like aliens were often purple and light bulb
headed.
 Hopper aliens were usually green and star headed.
 A singing green alien clapped with a singing green alien and
produced one singing green alien and one clicking green alien.
Put your FINAL ANSWERS HERE!
Challenge 1 :Which traits are dominant and which are recessive?
Make sure you EXPLAIN WHY! CITE SPECIFIC EVIDENCE FROM A PARTICULAR PERSON’S
OBSERVATIONS TO VALIDATE YOUR CLAIM!
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Dominant/Recessive
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Challenge 2: if a 8-eyed, light bulb-headed, green, clicking, shoe-smelling, hopping alien clapped
with an 8-eyed, star headed, purple, clicking, shoe-smelling, hopping alien…. What would the
MOST LIKELY alien baby be?