Lesson 5.4 Teacher’s Guide
Genetics: Genetics Testing/Ethics
Standards:
- 9.4.4.2 Human Interactions with Living Systems: Personal and community health can be affected by the environment, body functions and human behavior.
Benchmarks:
- 9.4.4.2.1 Describe how some diseases can sometimes be predicted by genetic testing and how this affects parental and community decisions.
Tentative Timeline:
- introduction, read articles: 1 day
This assignment is intended to introduce students to a new technology being developed to help eliminate genetics defects in human offspring. Students will read excerpts from two articles, answer questions for understanding, and generate a summary of their opinion about this new technology. This lesson could be the beginning of several lessons getting students to think about the ethics of genetics.