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  • Grove High School
  • Grove, OK
  • More than half of students from low‑income households

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At the end of last semester, I gave all of my students a survey. I asked them three questions. What do you like about this class? What do you NOT like about this class? What would you change? They were all very positive and helpful in their responses. The most popular request they had for change was for more hands-on activities. I did not realize how many hands-on activities we had stopped because of the Covid-19 restrictions. I would love to add some back, but I still have to be careful because we still have some of those restrictions. That is why I have chosen hands-on models that will engage my students and can be sanitized between uses because they are plastic. The “Modeling mitosis and meiosis kit” will address the following standards in mitosis and meiosis. B.LS1.4 Use a model to illustrate the role of cellular division (mitosis) and differentiation in producing and maintaining complex organisms. B.LS3.2 Make and defend a claim based on evidence that inheritable genetic variations may result from: (1) new genetic combinations through meiosis, (2) viable errors occurring during replication, and/or (3) mutations caused by environmental factors. These can be very difficult ideas to grasp. That is why I am so excited about getting these models in their hands so we can work through the concepts together. At the end of the semester, I will teach a section on frog dissection. I have added the plastic frog dissection model so that I can show the students what to expect and what they are looking for in their specimens. It will also allow those students that can’t dissect a chance to see the internal structure of the frog.

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At the end of last semester, I gave all of my students a survey. I asked them three questions. What do you like about this class? What do you NOT like about this class? What would you change? They were all very positive and helpful in their responses. The most popular request they had for change was for more hands-on activities. I did not realize how many hands-on activities we had stopped because of the Covid-19 restrictions. I would love to add some back, but I still have to be careful because we still have some of those restrictions. That is why I have chosen hands-on models that will engage my students and can be sanitized between uses because they are plastic. The “Modeling mitosis and meiosis kit” will address the following standards in mitosis and meiosis. B.LS1.4 Use a model to illustrate the role of cellular division (mitosis) and differentiation in producing and maintaining complex organisms. B.LS3.2 Make and defend a claim based on evidence that inheritable genetic variations may result from: (1) new genetic combinations through meiosis, (2) viable errors occurring during replication, and/or (3) mutations caused by environmental factors. These can be very difficult ideas to grasp. That is why I am so excited about getting these models in their hands so we can work through the concepts together. At the end of the semester, I will teach a section on frog dissection. I have added the plastic frog dissection model so that I can show the students what to expect and what they are looking for in their specimens. It will also allow those students that can’t dissect a chance to see the internal structure of the frog.

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