Assignment+2

Curriculum topic/unit/grade** || **10th Grade, Unit: Genetics Genetically Modified Foods** ||
 * **Socratic Seminar Planning Template
 * **What is the purpose of the Socratic Seminar? What are your goals?** || **1. To help students understand the complications and implications of genetically modified foods.**

 e.g., scaffold your questions, ask question that promote higher level thinking || **Opening Question: Are Genetically Modified Foods harmful to people or the environment?**
 * 2. To provide an opportunity for students to think critically and form answers to key questions. What are genetically modified foods? As consumers and global citizens, what is our responsibility regarding genetically modified foods?** ||
 * **Keeping in mind the qualities of good questions*, what question(s) will you ask to begin your seminar?**


 * 1. Why do G.M.F.s exist in today’s world?**


 * 2. What makes G.M.F.’s so desirable by some?**


 * 3. What makes G.M.Fs a problem for some groups?**


 * 4. How can G.M.Fs hurt the environment? People?** ||
 * **What additional questions will you ask?** || **1. Why should we care, as citizens about G.M.F.s?**


 * 2. What would happen if everyone in the US boycotted G.M.F.s?** ||
 * **What resources will you include in your Seminar?** || **1. Textbook readings on genetic modifications**


 * 2. Internet sites:**


 * http://www.udel.edu/physics/scen103/CGZ/food.html**

U. of Delaware site on food & genetics


 * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetically_modified_food**

Wikipedia site on GMF. Great for vocabulary & overview

Human Genome Project site. Benefits and controversies http://www.tiki.oneworld.net/genetics/home.html**
 * http://www.ornl.gov/sci/techresources/Human_Genome/elsi/gmfood.html

Friendly site on genetic engineering and how it affects food supplies ||

What questions did YOU wrestle with as you developed your Socratic Seminar?? Difficult to maintain my own neutrality regarding the topic.