Understanding+Reproduction+and+Chromosomes



Participant Feedback (put your name - comment) Name - Comment Kasi- Good lower level lab(freshman). Students should view either the slide or the cards by themselves so they can sketch them separatel. Set one of the organims at each station and have students rotate around the room, view the slide and compare and sketch. Rotating around the room can be a type of assement of their previous sketch.
 * Asexual Reproduction**

Emily- Good lab to show the introduction of asexual reproduction. The cards are useful to simple show the various types of meiosis.

Carrie - This would be a beneficial lab for middle school/freshmen biology to introduce single-cell asexual reproduction.

Alicia- Great for lower level Biology classes, need to make it more of a fact finding

George - This a nice simple lab. I would recommend this lab for middle to high school. Great directions and excellent group work. Good introductory lab!

Heather - Activity 1 -Nice lab with information clearly laid out. This lab could be adapted to meet the needs of classes at different levels - simplified or made more complex. Stations would be very useful, and students can analyze and then do a writing prompt based on what they saw. Activities 2-4 -Nice as well. Involves less legwork than the cut & paste method, and I like the magnetic board. The magnetic board may be able to be written on - that would be great! Maybe kid-proofing could be helpful, such as reinforcing the magnetic board/magnetic parts.

Kathy - Activity 1 - Easy way to teach different types of asexual reporduction. Activities 2-4 - Seem like a much better and easier way to teach karyotyping concepts than the traditional cutting and pasting of chromosomes.

Ken- Definitely separate the slides and cards so students don't just copy cards on the lab sheet.

Deb- Easy to understand, helps with microscope work. I agree that I'd keep the cards away. They need to learn how to draw what they see. A nice lab.

Carrie - Great lab for first level biology classes. Reinforces microscope work, uses vocabulary introduced at this level, and adequately describes asexual reproduction.


 * Karyotyping**

Participant Feedback (put your name - comment) Name - Comment Kasi- Excellent lab! I like what the kit provides, the magnets and the white boards. This is easy to conduct with a many purposes.

Emily- Great Lab! I will definitely invest in this lab for my classroom. The magnets are a great resource tool! The lab was easy and a good investigation to introduce karyotyping and genetic disorders!

George - This lab was fun! Very detailed and the material is awesome. I think this would be a great activity for most levels of students. I would use this in my classroom!

Ken- This part of the lab is a great resource. It can be used in many ways for different levels of Bio.

Deb- A great way to introduce karyotyping and I agree it beats the cut and paste method. Can be adapted to use with many intro classes and also our genetics classes.

Christine- This lab would be great for younger Biology classes. I enjoyed it very much. The magnetic whiteboards helped a lot in keeping the chromosomes in place while they were matched up; that should help a lot when doing this with a large class with younger kids (less prone to loosing them)