Lesson Plan: Inherited Traits and Variation
This lesson plan includes the objectives, prerequisites, and exclusions of the lesson teaching students how to identify inherited traits and explain how the inheritance of different traits leads to variation.
Objectives
Students will be able to
- identify traits in plants and animals,
- explain that living things inherit many traits from their parents,
- identify inherited traits in plants and animals,
- explain that offspring are not exactly the same as each other or the same as their parents,
- explain how inheriting different traits leads to variation.
Prerequisites
Students should already be familiar with
- the fact that all living things reproduce.
Exclusions
Students will not cover
- how traits can be influenced by the environment,
- how genes and chromosomes work,
- any details of sexual reproduction.