Genetic timeline

Teachers notes

This activity is designed to test the students knowledge of

historical scientific advances.

The students are provided with the events sheet. This can be

either:

A) a re-usable laminated card game ready cut out

B) a cut ‘n’ stick exercise, cut all the events out…..

The students are then given the timeline sheet which they

match the events to. Allow the students to guess when they

think these events occurred and once they have guessed they

can be shown the correct answer either using the power-point

timeline or an overhead copy of the teachers sheet.

Then the events can be stuck down to match the correct

answers (or copied into books if using laminates) and to

finish off they can complete the activity on filling in their

opinions of the next 1000 years of genetics.

Dolly the sheep is cloned

First birth using PGD

Mendel states that there are ‘genes’

Charles Darwin publishes his theory onevolution

First ‘test-t ube’ baby using I VF

Robert Hooke discovers cells

Watson & Crick describe DNA

Human genome project completes draf t

timeline sheet

1663

1859

1865

1953

1978

1989

1997

2003

Events sheet

1663Robert Hooke discovers cells

1859 Charles Darwin publishes his theoryon evolution

1865Mendel states that there are ‘genes’

1953Watson & Crick describe DNA

1978First ‘test-t ube’ baby using I VF

1989First birth using PGD

1997Dolly the sheep is cloned

2003Human genome project completes draf t

teacher sheet