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Dragon Genetics Student Reviews (04/03/08)
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In this assignment, you will be writing a review of the activities of our unit of Dragon Genetics
Basically, I want to know what you liked best and what you learned.
Your review will consist of the following: [For ease of use, you may simply copy, paste and modify the following text. Make sure that after the paste you remove these instructions. The rest of the text must be written in your own words and in complete sentences.]
TITLE: [For example: Dragon Genetics]
OVERALL RATING: [ (*)- 5 (*****)stars]
GENERAL DESCRIPTION: A short three sentence description of the unit. Starting with:
1) "In this unit, we learned about ..."
2) "This is an excellent/good/fair/poor unit because ..."
3) Provide at least one specific example of what you most liked/disliked about the unit.
EDUCATIONAL CONTENT:
For each of the following categories you will both rate the activity and write three full sentences to comment. Write your review as follows: [Copy, paste and modify the following text into each of the following categories to complete the text.]
Rating: 1-5 stars
Comments:
1) Describe the concept or the information provided by the activity.
2) Describe your level of understanding of the concept, ideas, information or story: "I have a (n) excellent/good/fair/poor understanding of ....
3) Specifics: Describe what specifically either
a) most helped you in understanding the concept, ideas, information or story
b) confused you the most.
CATEGORIES:
Activity 1: [Chromosome view]
Goal: Students will understand that gene variants called alleles determine the physical characteristics of animals.
Rate and comment as described above.
Activity 2: .Silver, Gold and Platinum Challenges
Goal: Students will understand how the process of meiosis and fertilization leads to passing of alleles to offspring.
Now rate and comment on this category as described above.]
Activity 3: Dragon Genetics Drawings
Goal: Students will understand how alleles locations (genetic loci) are distributed along the length of chromosomes. Elongated boxes are used to represent chromosomes with lines to represent genetic loci in order to create a genetic map.
Now rate and comment on this category as described above.]
COOLNESS:
Choose your own categories and then rate the activity based on what you really liked or disliked about the activity. Then write two full sentences to comment on the coolness of this activity.
Rating: 1-5 stars
Comments:
1) Describe some of the things you really liked or disliked about this activity.
2) Explain why you really liked or disliked the activity by using an example of and describing a specific feature and what you like or disliked about it that formed a basis for your rating.
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