I am a 10th grade bio teacher AND cannot wait till the genetics unit. I totally plan to use my cornsnakes as part of my unit. Just bear with your teacher b/c during my student teaching, I had a co-op who would NOT allow me to use any live animals in a biology classroom (imagine actually studing living things IN a class about the study of living things.lol). Anyway, I had to teach genetics using punnetts and imaginary traits and animals b/c thats what my co-op wanted....it sucked...it was unbearable for the students, who I'm certain would have rather learned from a real world perspective. Anyway, you are really ahead of things if you already know about all that at 15 years old. Is it an honors class?



Oh...and one more thing...I found a genetics lesson plan based solely around corn snake genetics in the NSTA monthly magazine (NSTA=National Science Teachers Association) and it was pretty cool...it required using pics of the snakes sorta like playing cards, instead of live animals (for those that don't have access to live animals). ANYWAY, I bet your teacher would be really impressed if you brought the info in...I'll look it up and see if I can't email it to you...you might not be able to actually get ahold of the lesson plan BUT you could give it to him/her to look up and they shouldn't have any problems finding it somewhere, as all school's have that magazine floating around in the science dept. or in the library.
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Sincerely,

Jason

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