A PSA’s or “Public Service Announcements” are messages, in the form of videos or advertisements, whose main goal is to raise awareness, educate, and change public attitudes or behaviors regarding an issue.
Watch the PSAs below to get a better ideas as to what one looks like.
Your task is to create a video public service announcement (PSA) regarding a genetic disease of your choice. This video is meant to teach your fellow classmates about your specific genetic disease. You must assume that your audience does not know anything about your disease or genetics. In your video, you must include:
1. Details of your disease:
2. Genetics of your disease
a. is it dominant, recessive, or sex-linked
b. a picture or explanation of the disease using a Punnett square.
3. Evaluate the Pros and Cons of having children, knowing you have or are a carrier of the disease.
Along with your video a MLA format bibliography and script must be turned in. This script should be an accurate reflection of the information in the video. Please click here if you would like to read information from Austin Community College regarding how to cite sources using MLA.
You may choose a disease from the list below or get approval from your teacher to do another.
List of Genetic Diseases
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