Project Overview: Each student first reflects upon their own social identities. They then choose a social identity group of which they are not a member that they would like to understand more fully through both reading and statistical analysis. They read an article and gather values of a quantitative variable related to the chosen social identity group for each state. Students ultimately construct two histograms to display the distribution of the variable across two different groupings of states.
Student Reflections:
Lesson Overview: Students first reflect upon their own ancestry and racial identity (see questions below), and then continue with a guided lesson on polygenic inheritance and genetic analysis to better understand the mechanics of DNA/ancestry testing and its inherent limitations. What can we conclude from such testing? What can we not conclude? Why?
Student Reflection:
“I was able to learn more about the specific backgrounds of people in the class, helping me to group people less.” Lesson Overview: After reading an article and watching a few videos, students will debrief in small groups, speaking in Spanish as they share and respond to quotes/passages from the article and videos. Lesson Resources:
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