SC15.7.14

Science (2015) Grade(s): 7

Obtaining, Evaluating, and Communicating Information

Cause and Effect

Students know:

Through technologies, humans have the capacity to influence certain characteristics of organisms.
One can choose desired parental traits determined by genes, which are then passed to offspring.

Students are able to:

Gather information about multiple technologies that have changed the way humans influence the inheritance and/or appearance of desired traits in organisms.
Use multiple appropriate and reliable sources of information for investigating each technology.
Assess the credibility, accuracy, and possible bias of each publication and method used in the information they gather.
Use their knowledge of artificial selection and additional sources to describe how the information they gather is or is not supported by evidence.
Synthesize the information from multiple sources to provide examples of how technologies have changed the ways that humans are able to influence the inheritance of desired traits in organisms.
Use the information to identify and describe how a better understanding of cause-and-effect relationships in how traits occur in organisms has led to advances in technology that provide a higher probability of being able to influence the inheritance of desired traits in organisms.

Students understand that:

Cause-and-effect relationships in how traits occur in organisms has led to advances in technology that provide a higher probability of being able to influence the inheritance of desired traits in organisms.

Technology (e.g., hand pollination, selective breeding, genetic engineering, genetic modification, gene therapy)
Inheritance
Traits
Synthesize
Bias
Credibility
Accuracy
Probability