NAME: Breiona Cherry

Lesson Title:

What is happening to the Spotted Salamanders in Georgia?

Grade Level:

9th

Subject:

Biology

Description of Learning Goals, Standards, Objectives

CC/GPSs:

National Technology
Standards:

Long-Term Learning
Goal or Outcome:

SB2. Students will analyze how biological traits are passed on to

successive generations.
c. Using Mendels laws, explain the role of meiosis in reproductive
variability.
d. Describe the relationships between changes in DNA and potential
appearance of new
traits including: alterations during replications and mutagenic factors
that can alter
DNA.
SCSh6. Students will communicate scientific investigations and
information clearly.
a. Write clear, coherent laboratory reports related to scientific
investigations.
3.
Research and Information Fluency
Students apply digital tools to gather, evaluate, and use
information. Students:
a.
plan strategies to guide inquiry.
b.
locate, organize, analyze, evaluate, synthesize,
and ethically use information from a variety of sources and
media.
c.
evaluate and select information sources and
digital tools based on the appropriateness to specific tasks.
d.
process data and report results.
By the end of this unit students will be able to identify how biological
traits are successfully inherited.
Students will generate a clear and descriptive lab report from the
research gathered.

ABCD Objectives or
Outcomes:

Objective: Using the Spotted Salamanders, for example, students will

research how the successful generations have shifted within the
species under Mendels Law. Also, how changes in DNA can alter a new
appearance.
Objective: Students will generate a clear lab report based on scientific
investigation of biological inheritance in the Spotted Salamanders.

Description of Assessment
Assessment Plan:

At the end of the unit, students will have a short answer quiz based on
Mendels Law and how changes in the DNA can alter appearance.
Rubric for the lab report assessment.