SECONDARY LESSON PLAN

YEAR LEVEL & SUBJECT: Year 10 Science

DATE: Friday, September 11, Period 4

NO. OF STUDENTS: 19

LESSON DURATION: 70 minutes (likely less after assembly)

TOPIC/FOCUS: Genetics and inheritance

AusVELS STATEMENTS:
Science / Year 10 / Biological sciences
- The transmission of heritable characteristics from one generation to the next involves DNA and genes.
Science / Year 10 / Nature and Development of Science
- Advances in scientific understanding often rely on developments in technology and technological advances are often linked to scientific discoveries.
GOALS AND OBJECTIVES (INCLUDE LINK TO AusVELS):
The students will be able to:
- Correctly define 12 key biological terms and produce an accurate Punnet Square.
- Create a fictional offspring that correctly represents four inherited traits from two parents.
- Analyse class data of small fry offspring and calculate the percentage of four phenotypes.
- Evaluate why there is often a difference between observed and predicted phenotypic ratios.
SUMMARY OF RESOURCES REQUIRED:
- Potato Head student worksheets
- Potatoes (10)
- Coloured plasticine
- Pipe cleaners
- Gonad bags (10)
- Projector
- Whiteboard markers
- Revision worksheets
- Exit survey
LESSON PROCEDURE

TIMING

RESOURCES

STEPS OF THE LESSON

(key activities and key questions)

EXPECTED STUDENT
REACTIONS OR
RESPONSES

TEACHER RESPONSES
TO STUDENTS
(including consideration of
the need to adapt, reteach
or extend)

GOALS & METHODS OF

EVALUATION
(including specific informal
and/or formal assessment
links to AusVELS)

15 mins

Revision
worksheet

50 mins

Potatoes,
worksheets,
gonad bags,
pipe cleaners,
plasticine,
projector

Opening
Hand out review worksheet of key
terms and a punnet square.

Lesson Development:
Hand out the Potato Head
worksheets to students and instruct
them to build one potato per pair by
following the instructions in the
booklet.
The classroom will be set up (before
the start of the lesson) with one table
of potatoes, three tables of body
parts and one table with the gonad
bags.
Instruct students to read through the
instructions and begin completing
sections that do not require the
experimental data.
After a few minutes of reading time
select one pair to begin collecting
their equipment. Once they have
moved on to the second table, select
another pair. Continue this method
until all equipment is collected.
Put blank table up on the board and
ask students to put in their data
when they are finished creating their
offspring.
Once all data is in the table, call for
students attention and work through
Table 4 together. Then give students
time to finish the questions on the
following pages.

Students to independently
complete the worksheet and
hand back to teacher.

Ensure students are ontask and collect

worksheets when finished.
(If time, mark while
students build potatoes).

Correctly define 12 key

biological terms and produce
an accurate Punnet Square.

Students can work in

groups, but will produce one
potato offspring each.

Circulate around the room

and answer any questions
that arise.
Mark worksheets if time.

Students will read the

instructions and collect
equipment as directed.

Ensure students are

reading the instructions,
and are only collecting
equipment when directed.

Create a fictional offspring

that correctly represents four
inherited traits from two
parents.
Analyse class data of small
fry offspring and calculate the
percentage of four
phenotypes.
Evaluate why there is often a
difference between observed
and predicted phenotypic
ratios.

Each student will put her

data into the collaborative
table on the screen.

Monitor that all data is

added to the class table.

Students will complete the

booklet using the data they
have collected.

Guide students through

Table 4 and answer any
questions about the rest of
the worksheet.

5 mins

Exit survey

Closure:
Ask students to complete exit survey
if they wish, and anonymously if they
prefer. If marked, hand back the
review worksheet from the start of
the lesson while they complete it.

Students will choose to

complete the exit survey, or
they can review the mark
they got on the revision
worksheet.

Go around and answer

any final questions that
students may have.
Distribute marked
worksheets and collect
exit surveys.