Science Curriculum

8th Grade

Course Purpose:

 Eighth grade students will use scientific principles to quantify interactions among the components of the world they see.

Outcomes and Components:

SC.8.5 Students will use Punnett Squares and other tools to identify and predict how traits are or have been transferred from parent to offspring.

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Component Code

Component

Standard(s)
  SC.8.5.1 Describe traits that are passed down from parent to offspring. MS-LS3-2
  SC.8.5.2 Model how chromosomes are passed from parent to offspring. MS-LS3-2
  SC.8.5.3 Use a Punnett square to predict possible genotypes and phenotypes of offspring.

MS-LS3-2

MS-LS4-6
  SC.8.5.4 Create a model offspring using sexual and asexual reproduction to produce a claim predicting the traits that would be passed on with a percentage likelihood.

MS-LS1-5

MS-LS3-1

Academic Vocabulary:  Illustrate, describe, model, utilize, create, probability, predict

Content Vocabulary: heredity, self-pollinating plant, true breeding plant,  dominant trait, recessive trait,  dormant trait, trait, gene, allele, Punnett Square, genotype, phenotype, probability, offspring, incomplete dominance