It's so Amazing!

Harris, R. H., & Emberley, M. (1999). It's so amazing!: a book about eggs, sperm, birth, babies, and families. Cambridge, Mass.: Candlewick Press.

For ages 7 and up, It's So Amazing provides an engaging and non-threatening way for parents to answer the question "Where do babies come from?".  With help from a bird and bee, each topic is discussed with cartoon like illustrations with careful attention paid to the young audience of the book.  Some adults may also learn a thing or two.

Lesson:  After reading the section on genetic characteristics, have students make a chart and write down their characteristics, (hair, eye color, ext) and make a determination which parent/grandparents passed down the specific trait.

TEKS: The student knows that reproduction is a characteristic of living organisms and that the instruction for traits are governed in the genetic material.  The student is expected to define heredity as the passage of genetic instruction from one generation to the next generation.