Cloning

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Cloning - huge potential and huge issues

Lesson idea. This eclectic resource offers students a tutorial with questions and links to news stories about cloning. It explains about reproductive and therapeutic cloning; mentions their potential and provides links, for example to an animation on how cloning works.

Teaching approach. The topic of the ethics^(topic) of modern biology needs to draw on a wider range of sources than a printed book may provide. This resource uses a web tutorial interspersed with external links to news and comment. Rather than leave the students to explore too many interests, a worksheet with questions enables the teacher to focus the students on a subset of the material. You can adapt this to your particular need, for example, if you wanted students to have a discussion^(ta)in small groups. You might also consider using a blog, chat room or other ICT tools to record the questioning^(ta) and reasoning^(ta) around this topic. The lesson-planning proforma (or draft lesson plan) includes a list of objectives that shows the scope of the material.

Resource details
Title	Cloning
Topic	[[Topics/Ethics|Ethics]],  [[Topics/Cloning|Cloning]],  [[Topics/Genetics|Genetics]]
Teaching approach	[[Teaching Approaches/Questioning|Questioning]],  [[Teaching Approaches/Reasoning|Reasoning]],  [[Teaching Approaches/Discussion|Discussion]]
Learning Objectives	know the ethical issues of therapeutic human stem cell cloning in biomedical research able to justify and exemplify their point of view. appreciate a range of viewpoints know the difference between reproductive and therapeutic cloning
Format / structure	A worksheet and lesson planning template as Word files, web pages and offsite links
Subject	[[Resources/Biology|Biology]],  [[Resources/Science|Science]]
Age of students / grade	[[Resources/KS5|KS5]],  [[Resources/AS|AS]],  [[Resources/A2|A2]],  [[Resources/Secondary|Secondary]]
Additional Resources/material needed	http://www.beep.ac.uk/content/173.0.html
Useful information	From BEEP, the bio-ethics education project
Related ORBIT Wiki Resources	Ethical issues in human reproduction, Designer Babies
Files and resources to view and download	Student tutorial - http://www.beep.ac.uk/content/345.0.html Student's activity guide - Cloning is here http://www.beep.ac.uk/content/352.0.html Draft lesson plan - http://www.beep.ac.uk/content/fileadmin/user_upload/documents/lesson_plans/Beep_LP2.doc Animated tutorial on cloning virtual mice - http://gslc.genetics.utah.edu/units/cloning/clickandclone/