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Description
Students have always found it challenging to understand and articulate Mendel's laws. What if those tasks were as easy as doing laundry? Our ChromoSock® activities are built with that concept in mind by having students use custom-sewn socks to mimic chromosomes. Modeling meiosis has never been easier, and this intermediate activity can engage your students and positively impact their understanding of key concepts.
Product Details
Beginning—Easy to perform, requires little or no prior knowledge.
Mendel’s laws of segregation and independent assortment are challenging for students to visualize and understand. The ChromoSock® Modeling Mendel’s Laws Kit makes it easy for students to simulate chromosomes and demonstrate how those structures carry and transfer information.
Students go hands-on with Punnett squares and Mendel’s laws as they use ChromoSock® specialty socks, which vary in size, length, color, and allele labeling. The specialty socks allow students to model the behavior of chromosomes during meiosis, visualize segregation of alleles and independent assortment, and complete Punnett squares. The kit also features a paper review meiosis activity to make sure that students are prepared to learn about Mendel’s laws in greater depth.
Product Features
- Designed for 32 students working in pairs
- Socks are made in the US
- Includes teacher’s manual and student guide
- Reusable
Digital Resources
Includes 1-year access to digital resources that support 3-dimensional instruction for NGSS. Digital resources may include a teacher’s manual and student guide, pre-lab activities and setup videos, phenomenon videos, simulations, and post-lab analysis and assessments.
Time Requirements
Teacher preparation: 15 minutes. Activity: 50 minutes.
Learning Objectives
Students will:
- Model Mendel’s law of segregation.
- Model Mendel’s law of independent assortment.
- Review the process of meiosis.
- Use alleles to predict phenotype.
Prerequisite Knowledge and Skills
Students should have a fundamental grasp of the process of meiosis.