Heredity and Adaptation

This course focuses on three elements: content knowledge, inquiry and other teaching strategies, and use of multimedia in teaching and learning. Course goals include:

• understanding what variations are and how they are passed from one generation to the next;
• understanding why individuals belonging to the same species share many characteristics but also vary;
• exploring the effect of variation on survival and reproduction in a population, given a particular set of environmental circumstances; and
• exploring how your own understanding of heredity and adaptation can help you prepare your students for their own future study of these topics.