Today's Google Doodle is about Har Gobind Khorana,
the Indian chemist who shared the 1968 Nobel
Prize for Physiology or Medicine, with Marshall
W. Nirenberg and Robert
W. Holley, for research that showed the order of nucleotides in nucleic
acids. This ties into our classroom topic for today,
perfectly. Heredity. As I read the Google Doodle this morning, I was inspired.
How much fun would it be to have students create some Google Doodle’s for our
current unit? A mini-lesson is born.
(Picture created by Google images)
Students were placed into 10
groups of three. Then assigned 4 vocabulary words within the Genetics unit.
They have to use, these 4 words and create a mini-lesson they will teach the
class, each consisting of: a scientific article regarding their words (sharing
a summary of the article), a diagram explaining how the words are connected, an
analogy for each word and finally a Google Doodle (cartoon and brief summary).
On Friday students will have purposeful collaboration and will share their
lesson with the class. This lesson brought to you by Google Doodles. Thank you
Google.
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