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- Title
Stories, fun and games: Teaching genetics in primary school.
- Authors
Davies, Gail
- Abstract
The article presents the author's opinion about teaching genetics in primary schools. He emphasized that school educational curricula should include genetics as a subject of study. Simple classroom games using dice and coins to determine the inheritance of genes should be introduced. This enables children to better understand some basic genetics of inheritance. These game are simple inheritance game, which shows how children receive characteristics from their parents. The game of dice exists in its two forms including a simple dice-rolling game and a sophisticated version looking at DNA codes. In the second existent form of the game, there are sets of DNA templates and students are made to draw the faces that they code for. Storytelling can also be incorporated as an useful learning tool for educating children about some basic genetics of inheritance. The author revealed that he possesses a series of short stories that can be used within the classroom to raise awareness of issues related to genetics and society.
- Subjects
GENETICS education; CURRICULUM; PRIMARY school facilities; ACTIVITY programs in education; SIMULATION methods in education; EDUCATIONAL games; STORYTELLING; DICE games; DNA
- Publication
Journal of Biological Education (Society of Biology), 2005, Vol 40, Issue 1, p31
- ISSN
0021-9266
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1080/00219266.2005.9656007