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Evidence for Evolution
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BSL ch. 28
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Globe ch. 33
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Theories of Evolution
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BSL ch. 29
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Globe ch. 32
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Mendel’s Genetics
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BSL ch. 25
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Globe ch. 29
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DNA
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BSL ch. 26
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Globe ch. 30
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Human Genetics
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BSL ch. 27
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Globe ch. 31
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Sexuality in the 5 Kingdoms
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BSL ch. 22
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Globe 11: 3, 4 18: 3
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Human Sexuality
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BSL ch. 23
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Globe ch. 25
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Development through the life cycle
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BSL ch, 36
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Reading Project
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Because genetics is intimately bound up with a modern understanding of evolution and what sexuality is about, it seemed natural to combine these three important components of sophomore curriculum together. Students could easily select activities or projects out of the topic order during the middle of the week and be able to see the connection to the unfolding development of content and concepts given in the readings, videos and so forth.
c) Plan instructional activities that have a wide amount of choice
The grading policy outlined below appears complicated but was necessary to accommodate a wide range of student abilities and to be responsive to the range of student interests. Non-academically achieving students generally do best on small scale activities that are concretely structured, last a day or two at most and do not require a lot of reading or writing. Some of these appealed to brighter students and were combined with bigger projects on the same topic. As it turned out, there were students who would do a minor project with a great deal of care and those who would speed through it and move on to another activity. Both had educational value—the more careful work usually ended up being the model piece that was put on the display board. Their work would be the examples from which to teach and explain important concepts to the class, such as the three dimensional structure of DNA. In a number of instances the outstanding work of the student or small group that worked on a project acted as an inspiration to many more students. Those who copied their work either were able to complete their project much faster or as occurred in the case of a project on meiosis, led to a simpler way of solving the problem of how to model chromosomal reduction division.
