Monday, January 11, 2016

Monday, January 11, 2016
Today we did an activity called “An Inventory of My Traits.”  If you were out, see me for the handout and for a summary of the activity.  At the end of the lesson we considered the questions: “What is a trait?”, “Are all traits equally common” and “ can you see, based on just the few traits we have listed here how we can all be unique?”

We also summarized Lesson U3Act1: Heredity? Copy the following summary to page 50 or 51 in your journal:
Heredity: The passing on of mental or physical characteristics from one generation to the next.
There are many, many possible combinations of traits, which is what makes all of us unique.
To calculate how many possible combinations, use the following formula:

# of possible combinations  = # of trait variations # of traits