"Just come to class." That was our instructions for our final teaching lab period. "What we don't have to prepare anything? Am I forgetting something?!" So off we went to lab, feeling a bit unprepared, but excited.
An we loaded up in the van and drove to Dollar Tree for the mission of finding 5 items that we could use in our unit to make things more creative. I brought my Genetics Unit from my Ag Biology class. And here is what ended up on the checkout counter:
1.) A ball- Part of a demonstration where I will have students complete a task with different 'limitations,'which lead into the discussion of natural selection
2.) A pooper scooper- Yup, it clearly relates to the topic of GMOs and related to the demonstration mentioned above in #1
3.) Dice- Students will be rolling them to determine traits. This will lead into the punnet square
4.) Skittles- They will be the 'traits' used for a different punnet square activity
5.) Sidewalk chalk- Why waste paper when we can do activities and drawings outside?!
Overall it was a great time once our creativity got moving!
