Ethical issues in human reproduction

Lesson idea. A planning proforma including learning objectives, assessment strategies, learning outcomes and a detailed plan.

Teaching approach. This lesson outline stimulates A-level students to engage in discussion^(ta), develop their reasoning^(ta) skills and increase their awareness of the bioethical^(topic) issues involved in human reproduction.

Background texts and open-ended questioning^(ta) about human reproduction, contraception and IVF are provided as the stimulus. Small group discussion about these topics, writing on post-it notes, and reading case studies aim to get students reasoning^(ta) to justify their opinions, and to compare and evaluate competing views. Finally, whole class^(ta) discussion synthesises the emerging ideas and encourages students to consider changing their positions or adding additional issues to a recording table.

Resource details
Title	Ethical issues in human reproduction
Topic	[[Topics/Ethics|Ethics]],  [[Topics/Human reproduction|Human reproduction]]
Teaching approach	[[Teaching Approaches/Questioning|Questioning]],  [[Teaching Approaches/Whole class|Whole class]],  [[Teaching Approaches/Reasoning|Reasoning]],  [[Teaching Approaches/Discussion|Discussion]] Property "Teaching approach" (as page type) with input value "and to develop their reasoning skills. Background texts and open-ended questions about human reproduction" contains invalid characters or is incomplete and therefore can cause unexpected results during a query or annotation process.[[Category: and to develop their reasoning skills. Background texts and open-ended questions about human reproduction]]Property "Teaching approach" (as page type) with input value "Contraception and IVF are providedas a stimulus. Small group discussion about these topics" contains invalid characters or is incomplete and therefore can cause unexpected results during a query or annotation process.[[Category:contraception and IVF are provided as a stimulus. Small group discussion about these topics]]Property "Teaching approach" (as page type) with input value "And case studies are used with the aim of getting students to reason–to articulate and justify their opinions" contains invalid characters or is incomplete and therefore can cause unexpected results during a query or annotation process.[[Category:and case studies are used with the aim of getting students to reason– to articulate and justify their opinions]]Property "Teaching approach" (as page type) with input value "Whole class discussionsynthesizes the ideas emerging and encourages students to consider changing their positions or adding additional issues to the table." contains invalid characters or is incomplete and therefore can cause unexpected results during a query or annotation process.[[Category:whole class discussion synthesizes the ideas emerging and encourages students to consider changing their positions or adding additional issues to the table.]]
Format / structure	A two-page Word document
Subject	[[Resources/Science|Science]]
Age of students / grade	[[Resources/KS5|KS5]],  [[Resources/Secondary|Secondary]]
Additional Resources/material needed	Lesson ideas on cloning, gene technology and cystic fibrosis, reproduction and ethics, cloning and reproductive technologies, designer babies, all available to download at http://www.beep.ac.uk/content/352.0.html
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