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Last spring, my students' faces lit up when they realized our classroom fish were breeding. Immediately a thousand questions erupted from the room. Our lesson was put on the back burner while the students scraped the eggs off the glass and prepared a small holding tank for the eggs. Students began talking excitedly about what the offspring would look like. A light bulb went off for me. I realized they actually were interested in genetics, which they had struggled through only a month before. My students need an authentic and hands on way to learn abstract genetic principles--my students need an axolotl breeding program. An axolotl is a type of aquatic salamander that is used as a model organism because it breeds easily in the lab. We need fish tanks, filters and test kits to take care of adult and juvenile axolotls so we can investigate the inheritance of different axolotl traits. We'll also use axolotls to study ecology, biogeochemical cycles and physiology.

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Last spring, my students' faces lit up when they realized our classroom fish were breeding. Immediately a thousand questions erupted from the room. Our lesson was put on the back burner while the students scraped the eggs off the glass and prepared a small holding tank for the eggs. Students began talking excitedly about what the offspring would look like. A light bulb went off for me. I realized they actually were interested in genetics, which they had struggled through only a month before. My students need an authentic and hands on way to learn abstract genetic principles--my students need an axolotl breeding program. An axolotl is a type of aquatic salamander that is used as a model organism because it breeds easily in the lab. We need fish tanks, filters and test kits to take care of adult and juvenile axolotls so we can investigate the inheritance of different axolotl traits. We'll also use axolotls to study ecology, biogeochemical cycles and physiology.

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