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. (edit)

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
Useful information

From BEEP, the bio-ethics education project

Related ORBIT Wiki Resources
Files and resources to view and download



© Preview of student tutorial section