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This interactive supplementary aid is perfect for opening a unit on Genetics or Heredity. This lesson accommodates your students multiple intelligences and includes engaging activities that focuses on the real experiments that took place. This can be used as a stationed lab or practical. However, each segment can be used individually. Students really need the know who and how DNA was discovered. This lesson hits this target to a tee.

Furthermore, this intense lesson will embark on a series of experiences that can give your students the perspective of what it was like to actually discover DNA. Specifically students will tranvserve the prominent experiments that actually lead the idea that DNA and not protein was responsbile for heredity continuity. Students will be engaged as they not only take the role of many scientists, but indirectly practice the

As you transverse the knowledge and experience of these revolutionary scientists, students will travel to (4) different stations using this highly engaging activity. This lesson will allow students to actually track how DNA was discovered.

At each station students will be exposed to a wide spectrum of activities that range from the Fredrick Griffth Experiment (interactive mice activity); Oswald Avery Experiment ( KWL activity as a product of an model activity); Hershey and Chase Experiments (students will actually draw a model of the Hershey and Chase experiment a use a given key to reproduce the experiment); and Structure of DNA activity; students will open doors and see the different scientists responsibled for the discovery of DNA and its structure. This lesson even goes as far as describing the contribution that Rosland Franklin contributed and how Watson and Crick used her data without her permission.

I have included the entire expanded lesson plan. You will receive all four lab stations, the entire individual student workpacket, and a student assessment sheet.