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Big Idea 1 6 Living Things Inherit a Combination of Traits from Their Parents Correlated to GRADE 6 Grade 6 Current Standards GRADE • 6 Big Idea units with: - 4 standards-based weekly lessons Evan-Moor 6 - 24 activity pages EMC 5016 ® - teacher lesson plans Daily Science • Content vocabulary, comprehension, and visual literacy practice • 6 hands-on activities Big Idea 1 6 Living things inherit a combination of traits from their parents. Big Key Concepts Traits and Heredity Idea 1 National Standard Every organism requires a set of instructions for specifying its traits. Heredity is the passage of these instructions from one generation to the next. y the sixth grade, students Teacher Background understand that offspring Bresemble their parents. Genetics is the science of heredity. The set of instructions However, most students are likely for an organism’s traits are passed from one generation to be unfamiliar with the to the next through genes. Genetic information is underlying concepts of heredity transferred from parent to offspring at the cellular level. and genetics. This Big Idea teaches Inside the nucleus of a human cell, there are 46 students that: chromosomes. Half of them come from one parent, and half from the other. A chromosome is made up of organisms inherit traits from a single strand of DNA, where hundreds of genes may their parents; reside. Dominant and recessive genes combine to produce an organism’s traits. In addition, environmental the gene is the basic unit of factors ranging from the amount of nutrients received heredity; in the womb to language acquisition influence a the differences in traits between person’s traits. individuals are the result of genetic variation; and Humans have begun manipulating the genes of many types of organisms in order to control the traits that the life experiences and environment offspring inherit. People have bred organisms from can influence the expression of different species together in order to create favorable traits. combinations of traits. Humans also selectively breed plants and animals of the same species in order to capitalize on natural genetic variation. For specific background information on each week’s concepts, refer to the notes on pp. 8, 14, 20, and 26. 6 Big Idea 1 Daily Science • EMC 5016 • © Evan-Moor Corp. 5016BigIdea1.indd 6 1/14/14 3:49 PM Unit Overview WEEK 1: Can horses and zebras emphasize certain traits, and that modern- have babies together? day corn colors are a result of selective breeding. Connection to the Big Idea: Animals from separate but closely related species can Content Vocabulary: genetic variation, produce offspring with a combination of mutate, selective breeding each species’ traits. Students learn that inherited traits are passed down from WEEK 4: Are identical twins parents to offspring. Students also discover exactly alike? that horses and zebras belong to different Connection to the Big Idea: Students species. When these animals mate, they learn that identical twins form from a create a hybrid offspring. single fertilized egg with the same set of Content Vocabulary: fertile, genus, hybrid, chromosomes inherited from their parents. inherited traits, species, sterile While they share the same DNA, identical twins can develop unique traits because WEEK 2: Why are some people of differences in their environment and left-handed? experiences. In addition, chemical changes and copy errors made to the DNA can result Connection to the Big Idea: The basic unit of heredity is the gene. Students learn that in genetic differences in identical twins. a gene can be either dominant or recessive. Content Vocabulary: embryo, epigenome, An offspring inherits two copies of each genome, monozygotic gene from its parents, and that offspring’s visible traits depend on the combination of WEEK 5: Unit Review dominant and recessive genes it receives. You may choose to do these activities to A dominant gene will be visible over a review concepts of heredity and genetics. recessive gene. Only when both copies p. 32: Comprehension Students answer of a gene are recessive will the recessive multiple-choice questions about important trait be visible. Students discover that left- concepts in the unit. handedness is a recessive trait. Content Vocabulary: chromosome, DNA, p. 33: Vocabulary Students match dominant, gene, heredity, recessive vocabulary words from the unit to their definitions. WEEK 3: How can corn be yellow, p. 34: Visual Literacy Students fill in white, or blue? Punnett squares to determine possible Connection to the Big Idea: Traits within gene combinations. a species can vary, and those traits can be manipulated through breeding. p. 35: Hands-on Activity Students conduct Students learn that the traits of corn are an experiment to extract DNA from a highly variable. This is because corn DNA banana. Instructions and materials contains “jumping genes.” Students learn needed for the activity are listed on that selective breeding allows farmers to the student page. © Evan-Moor Corp. • EMC 5016 • Daily Science Big Idea 1 7 5016BigIdea1.indd 7 1/14/14 3:49 PM Week 1 Can horses and zebras have Idea 1 babies together? This week students are introduced to the concept of heredity and traits. Scientists arrange living things into groups based on the traits they have in common. Horses and zebras share enough traits to belong to the same Living things inherit genus, but not the same species. Organisms within the same species are a combination of able to reproduce and create fertile offspring. Yet, some closely related traits from their species, like the horse and the zebra, are still able to breed. Their parents. offspring are called hybrids. As with all offspring, hybrids inherit traits from both parents. In hybrids, this combination of traits from two different species produces an appearance that is unpredictable. Day One Introduce the vocabulary word and explain that traits can be learned as Vocabulary: inherited well as passed down from parent to offspring. While most physical traits traits are inherited, behavioral traits can be either passed down or learned. Materials: page 9 After students have read the passage, confirm their understanding of any unfamiliar or difficult words, such as agile (able to move easily) and drought (a period without water). Then have students complete the activities. Review the answers together. Day Two Before students read the passage, consider building background by Vocabulary: fertile, discussing the classification system (kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, species genus, species). Then introduce the vocabulary words. After students have Materials: page 10 finished reading, have them complete the activities. If students have trouble with activity C, help them brainstorm animals that look, act, or make sounds like cats. Day Three Introduce the vocabulary word and show students pictures of different Vocabulary: hybrid hybrid animals, if you have them. You might also ask students what other “hybrids” they have heard of. (e.g., hybrid cars, which are both gas- and Materials: page 11; pictures of hybrids such electric-powered) After students have finished reading, direct them to as a zebroid, mule, and complete the activities. Review the answers together. liger (optional) Day Four Explain that horses, mules, donkeys, and other domesticated animals are Vocabulary: sterile sometimes called pack animals because they are used to carry people and supplies. This is why people sometimes breed zebroids in Africa. Then Materials: page 12 have students read the passage and direct them to complete the activities. For the oral activity, pair students or discuss the topic as a group. Day Five Have students complete the page independently. Then review Materials: page 13 the answers together. 8 Big Idea 1 • Week 1 Daily Science • EMC 5016 • © Evan-Moor Corp. 5016BigIdea1.indd 8 1/14/14 3:49 PM y Sci ail en D ce Name __________________________________________________________ Weekly Question Day Big Can horses and zebras Idea 1 1 have babies together? Horses are ideal animals for riding. They are tame, swift, and agile. They are also easy and comfortable to sit on because of the WEEK 1 shape of their backs. But horses are delicate animals. They don’t do well in hot, dry conditions. And they are prone to catching certain diseases. Zebras, on the other hand, are very strong. They are sturdy Vocabulary and tolerant of heat and drought. Also, they are more resistant to inherited traits disease. But zebras can’t be easily tamed, and their body shape in-HAIR-ih-tid TRAY T Z makes them difficult to ride. physical or behavioral These characteristics of horses and zebras are inherited traits, characteristics that which are features that are passed down from parents to offspring. are passed down Inherited traits may be physical, such as a zebra’s stripes, or from parents to offspring behavioral, such as a horse’s gentle nature. horse zebra A. Identify each trait as either physical or behavioral. 1. agile 4. strong 2. tame 5. curly hair 3. shy .B Name two traits that you have inherited from either of your parents. Write whether each trait is physical or behavioral. 1. 2. © Evan-Moor Corp. • EMC 5016 • Daily Science Big Idea 1 • Week 1 9 5016BigIdea1.indd 9 1/14/14 3:49 PM y Sci ail en D ce Name __________________________________________________________ Weekly Question Day Big Can horses and zebras Idea 1 2 have babies together? Scientists arrange living organisms into groups based on common inherited traits. Horses and zebras have several traits in WEEK 1 common. Both have hooves. Both have manes and long tails. Both eat grasses, leaves, and twigs. Because of these and other traits, horses and zebras belong to the same genus. Vocabulary Yet horses and zebras have their own unique traits, which is why they belong to separate species. Organisms within a species have fertile many more traits in common than organisms in the same genus.
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