Teacher Candidate's Name: Katie Blodgett

Cooperating Teachers Name: Beth Baker

Lesson Plan Template: Backward Planning

Learning Outcomes Assessment of Learning Instructional Plan
Unit Title: Ch. 11

Lesson Title:Pedigrees and Complex Inheritance Subject Area: Biology

Grade/Level: 9
Alignment
to
Objectives

Date of Lesson: 3/22/16

Length of lesson: 50 min

CCSS for ELA/Math

(or MLR and/or Next Gen Science for other content areas)

Applyconceptsofstatisticsandprobabilitytoexplainthevariationanddistributionof
expressedtraitsinapopulation.[ClarificationStatement:Emphasisisontheuseof
mathematicstodescribetheprobabilityoftraitsasitrelatestogeneticandenvironmental
HSLS33. factorsintheexpressionoftraits.][AssessmentBoundary:Assessmentdoesnotinclude
HardyWeinbergcalculations.]

Essential Question(s)
How can a pedigree chart be used to determine the probability of a trait or disease?
Why are fatal traits usually recessive?

Objectives and Assessments

Objective
Number
1
2

Objective(s) (Number each objective.)

Students will be able to construct a pedigree and use
it to analyze a pattern of inheritance.
Students will understand the patterns of autosomal
dominant and autosomal recessive inheritance.

Assessment(s) for Each Objective

(In parentheses, mark each I for
informal or F for formal.)
I
I

Necessary Prior Knowledge/Skills (Describe where/when/how each has been learned.):

- Punnett squares, mendellian genetics, recessive and dominant alleles- Ch 10, previous lesson,
discussion

Alignment
to
Objectives

Instructional Components
What Teacher Does
Homework: students were given reading
assignment for todays lesson, as well as studying
for a vocab quiz.

What Students Do

Read story: The Blue People of Troublesome

Creek

1,2

Vocab quiz handed out

1,2

Using power point presentation, teacher discusses

complex patterns of inheritance and

1,2

1,2

1,2

1,2

Students answer short vocab quiz questions

Students will take notes on short lecture and
answer leading questions.

Students will participate in construction of initial

Teacher will introduce pedigree set up on pedigree.
the board
Teacher will allow students to begin
working on pedigree for homework
reading

Teacher will draw pedigree on the board, as

students offer what they have already developed
in groups
Homework assigned

Students will demonstrate that given inheritance

information, they can construct a pedigree and
determine inheritance pattern. Students will
begin working in groups on constructing
pedigree
Students will share their work with the class and
collaborate to build a pedigree.
Students will complete pedigrees for homework.

Links to Technology:
PPT, Projector
Materials and Supplies:
Reading assignment- Blue People.
Vocab Quiz
Whiteboard, Markers

Accommodations/Adaptations/Differentiation:
N/A

Maine Common Core Teaching Standards (MCCTS) (Check those that are part of this lesson.):
Check only those that are part of the lesson plan, not those that are part of lesson implementation.
The Learner and Learning

Instructional Practices

S1 Learner Development
S2 Learning Differences
S3 Learning Environments
Content

S6 Assessment
x

S7 Planning for Instruction

S8 Instructional Strategies
Professional Responsibility

S4 Content Knowledge

S9 Professional Learning and Ethical

Practice

S5 Application of Content

S10 Leadership and Collaboration

Technology

S11 ISTE Standards.T

Reflection about teaching of lesson: (What went well? What would you change and why? What evidence do you have that
students learned?)