Human Genetics: A Worldwide Search for the Dominant Trait

Activity 4: Final Reports

Materials

Notebooks and Pencils

Instructions

Each school should submit only one short, final report explaining what their students have learned from the project. Send this report after examining the survey results and the color blindness results from all participants. If necessary, have different classes combine their individual reports. Different classes could write separate paragraphs within a single report. If this is inconvenient, please make sure each class identifies itself in the heading for its paragraph.

Here are some questions that you may wish to answer as part or all of the final report:

Participants who completed the additional challenges will want to include a summary of their findings as part of their final reports.

1.	Was your class able to complete the project as it was designed? Explain why or why not.
2.	What was the most important new idea or scientific procedure you learned by doing this project?
3.	If someone asked you about the outcome of the project, how would you answer?
4.	If you had the chance to do this project again, what would you do differently?
5.	If you could speak to the project leader, what suggestions for improvement would you offer?
6.	Did the results of your project match your expectations? Explain why or why not.
7.	What procedures did you use to analyze the large quantity of data?
8.	What was the frequency range (highest% minus lowest%) of the dominant traits ?
9.	Is there a relationship between how often a trait occurred and dominance? Explain.
10.	What did you learn about the way red-green color blindness is inherited in humans?

The report does not have to be long; one page or less is sufficient. In the subject line, please write "Final Report from Your School" (example: Final Report from Kennedy Middle School). In the final report, please include your school 's location and your grade and/or subject area.

About two weeks before the end of the project, the project leader will select reports from the Discussion Area and post them as separate web pages in the Student Gallery section.