Baby+Genes



Participant Feedback (put your name - comment) Name - Comment Julie- Lab is very cost effective and allows parents to be homozygous. Coin lab only allows for heterozygous parents. I would definitely purchase this lab.

Kasi- This lab was good because the parents weren't all heterozygous, like other genetic labs. Clarify with the students that the "M" on the cards means male and not mother. A suggestion to not mix up the cards may be to color code the cards for clear gender distinction.

Emily- Excellent lab a new variation on a old idea. I would make the cards different colors to denote the difference between male and female. Easy to understand and complete. A great lab for any classroom!

George - Great lab! This is easy to use and would work with any level student. Minor enhancements woould be putting male genes on blue paper and female genes on pink paper. I would definitely do this in my class!

Carrie - I would definitely do this lab in my classroom. The lab is a great paper variation of the traditional coin lab.

Ken- Good lab. You could modify it to use the students' own traits with minimal effort.

Lemon- A very good variety of traits for parents to help prevent students copying off of their neighbor! "Blindly drawn" tiles should be encouraged, but even if they "cheat" and peek at the alleles to get their desired traits, they are applying their learning! Sounds like a win-win to me! :)

Christine- Great activity for students to work together with minimal distractions (few pieces, so good for younger groups too). This lab could essentially be created from scratch, but the cost is so minimal, it seems it is definitely worth the $20. I would strongly suggest this activity be utilized before covering the exceptions to Mendel's rules (multiple alleles, incomplete dominance, etc.), as some of the phenotypes don't follow Mendel's Principle of Dominance. Minimal confusion- I would definitely utilize this activity in my classroom.

Kathy - Nice variation of the baby lab.

Keith - I enjoyed this exercise. It provides quite a bit of drill on the concepts, without feeling like drill. I'd definitely use this in a suitable classroom. Great fun!

Louann - This is much better than the version I currently use, which involves flipping coins. This version has much better diversity for parental genotypes. And a good value for the money.

Deb- I'm sorry I missed this one. It sounds great!