Fifth Grade Science: Inherited Traits Ms. Fidell Standard 5: Students will understand that traits are passed from the parent organisms to their offspring, and that sometimes the offspring may possess variations of these traits that may help or hinder survival in a given environment. Objective 1 d: Using supporting evidence, the students will show that traits are transferred from a parent organism to its offspring. They will compare and contrast inherited traits with traits and behaviors that are not inherited but may be learned or induced by environmental factors. http://www.schools.utah.gov/curr/core/corepdf/Scie3-6.pdf Essential Questions: 1. Do the variations in a species give them an advantage for survival over other individuals of the same species? 2. How does the environment affect their acquired/behavioral traits? 3. If the environment became warmer, how would if affect your animal? Materials/Technology Tools: Internet access, Microsoft PowerPoint/Smilebox.com, encyclopedias, animal reference books, paper, pencil SmartBoard (optional) Lesson Plan: Build background knowledge: Read about inherited traits in species. Discuss the difference in inherited traits versus acquired/behavioral characteristics. Heredity is the passing on of biological attributes from one generation to the next, while acquired characteristics are because of the environment. **Read Scenarios Ask which traits they have inherited? Ask which traits they have acquired from their environment? Discuss with students the various animals’ traits and environments. Discuss physical adaptations versus behavioral adaptations. Review PowerPoint/Smilebox programs. Hand out the Multimedia rubric and “My Favorite Wild Animal” outline worksheet then discuss, so students know what to produce for a passing grade. Students must first do research and fill out their “Favorite Wild Animal” checklist worksheet. Students will create a 10-12 slide PowerPoint presentation (or 8-10 page Smilebox) to present to class after their research is complete. Evaluation: See Rubric **Scenarios “Inherited or Acquired Traits” 1. Burt Kromosome has a muscular build like his dad, a former professional football player. Burt roughhouses with his dad and can beat him at hand wrestling, but he would rather sit on the couch watching TV and munching on potato chips. Burt could stand to lose some weight, but he says he’ll never be out of shape. 2. Jeanie Gene’s mother teaches French and German. Jeanie makes top grades in both languages, but she has trouble with math. Her parents hired a tutor, and now she makes the honor roll at school. My Favorite Wild Animal Power Point/Smilebox Presentation Name: _____________________________________ Date:_______________________ 1. What is your animal? 2. In what type of environment does it usually live? 3. What are three physical/inherited adaptations the animal has? A. B. C. 4. What does each adaptation help the animal do? A. B. C. 5. What are two acquired/behavioral adaptations? A. B. 6. What do these behaviors help the animal do? 7. If the environment became warmer, how would it affect your animal? Multimedia Project : Inherited Traits Presentation Student Name: _____________________________________Date:_______________________________ Teacher : ___________________________ CATEGORY 4- Excellent 3- Good 2- Fair 1- Poor Content Covers topic indepth with details and examples. Subject knowledge is excellent. Includes essential knowledge about the topic. Subject knowledge appears to be good. Includes essential information about the topic but there are 1-2 factual errors. Content is minimal OR there are several factual errors. Organization Content is well organized using headings or bulleted lists to group related material. Uses headings or bulleted lists to organize, but the overall organization of topics appears flawed. Content is logically organized for the most part. There was no clear or logical organizational structure, just lots of facts. Originality Product shows a large amount of original thought. Ideas are creative and inventive. Product shows some original thought. Work shows new ideas and insights. Uses other people's ideas (giving them credit), but there is little evidence of original thinking. Uses other people's ideas, but does not give them credit. Mechanics No misspellings or grammatical errors. Three or fewer misspellings and/or mechanical errors. Four misspellings and/or grammatical errors. More than 4 errors in spelling or grammar. Attractiveness Makes excellent use of font, color, graphics, effects, etc. to enhance the presentation. Makes good use of font, color, graphics, effects, etc. to enhance to presentation. Makes use of font, color, graphics, effects, etc. but occasionally these detract from the presentation content. Use of font, color, graphics, effects etc. but these often distract from the presentation content. Oral Presentation Interesting, wellrehearsed with smooth delivery that holds audience attention. Relatively interesting, rehearsed with a fairly smooth delivery that usually holds audience attention. Delivery not smooth, Delivery not smooth but able to hold and audience audience attention attention lost. most of the time. Requirements All 10-12 slide requirements are met or exceeded. Most slide requirements are met, created 10. Some slide requirements were not completely met, only 7-9. Several slide requirements were not completely met, less than 7 slides. Permissions All permissions to use graphics "borrowed" from web pages or scanned from books have been requested, received, printed and saved for future reference. All permissions to use graphics "borrowed" from web pages or scanned from books have been requested and received. Most permissions to use graphics "borrowed" from web pages or scanned from books have been requested and received. Permissions were not requested for several graphics "borrowed" from web pages or scanned from books.