Description
Teach your entire Genetics and Inheritance Unit with this comprehensive bundle of engaging, no-prep resources! This bundle includes everything you need to introduce new concepts, reinforce learning, provide meaningful practice, review for assessments, and evaluate student understanding.
Designed for high school biology, these resources combine interactive Google Slides, guided notes, worksheets, review games, digital activities, Google Forms, and assessments to help students build a deep understanding of genetics through active learning—not memorization.
This curriculum is designed to keep students engaged while saving you valuable planning time.
Every resource is fully editable and includes a comprehensive teacher key and teaching guide.
What’s Included in the Genetics and Inheritance Unit Bundle:
Teaching Guides:
- Full Unit Teaching Guide – start here! This document includes a list of every resource in order along with a short description and an estimate for how long it will take to use the resource in class.
- Each individual resource also includes a Teaching Guide with any tips and ideas for how to best use the material.
Seven Interactive Google Slides Lessons:
- Basic Genetics & Punnett Squares
- Codominance & Incomplete Dominance
- Dihybrid & Two-Trait Crosses
- Multiple Alleles & Polygenic Traits
- Sex-Linked Traits
- Pedigrees
- Genes & the Environment
No lectures required! Google Slide lessons are student-led and interactive, with drag and drop elements, sorting, answering questions and clicking links embedded in the Slides. This leaves you free to walk the room and help students who need you!
Students can work individually or in pairs. They learn as they explore the slides while completing guided notes along the way. Not fill in the blank – but real questions that prompt students to process and practice what they are learning.
Students can learn at their own speed. If someone needs more time, the lesson can be finished for homework.
Great for sub days. Perfect for a flipped classroom, if that is your thing!
Student Activities and Practice
- Mate your Dragons! Punnett Squares Activity
- Cross your Birds Punnett Squares Activity
- Four sets of Genetics Review Worksheets : Basic Punnett Squares, Non-Mendelian Traits (codominant, incomplete dominant, multiple allele, sex-linked), Dihybrid and Two Trait Crosses, Pedigrees
Review Resources
- Biology_Bro Genetics Unit Review Game: versatile resource that can be used as a whole class, in groups, pairs or individuals!
- Dot Game: Students compete using strategy and genetics skills to win the game
- Google Forms Review sets: self grading, questions to reinforce concepts grow deeper understanding. Ten Forms with a total of 120 questions!
Genetics Unit Assessment
- 25-question Genetics & Inheritance Test
- Printable and Google Forms versions
- Complete answer key
Genetics and Inheritance Topics Covered
- Genetics vocabulary
- Traits, alleles, genes, and chromosomes
- Genotype vs. phenotype
- Homozygous vs. heterozygous
- Dominant and recessive inheritance
- Mendelian genetics
- Punnett squares
- Monohybrid crosses
- Test crosses
- Dihybrid (two-trait) crosses
- Probability and inheritance patterns
- Codominance
- Incomplete dominance
- Multiple alleles (ABO blood types)
- Polygenic inheritance
- Sex-linked (X-linked and Y-linked) traits
- Autosomal vs. sex-linked inheritance
- Pedigree analysis
- Gene expression
- Genes and environmental influences
Why Teachers Love This Bundle
- The whole resource is 100% editable!
- Complete genetics curriculum in one bundle
- No prep—ready to use
- Interactive, student-centered lessons
- Guided notes that promote active learning
- Hands-on practice
- Multiple review options to fit your classroom
- Google Slides, Google Forms, and Google Docs
- Fully editable files
- Complete teacher keys included throughout
Students progress from learning foundational genetics vocabulary and Punnett squares to mastering more advanced concepts such as codominance, incomplete dominance, multiple alleles, polygenic inheritance, sex-linked traits, pedigrees, dihybrid crosses, and gene-environment interactions. Along the way, they reinforce their understanding through engaging activities, collaborative games, review resources, and comprehensive assessments.
The complete Unit will take between two and three weeks to complete, depending on the speed of your students. Make it faster by turning some lessons or review into homework!
Save 20% by purchasing the complete bundle instead of the individual resources, and enjoy having everything you need to teach an engaging Genetics and Inheritance unit from start to finish!
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