More than half the world's population eats rice as a daily staple ... imagine if that rice could prevent illness. Scientists genetically engineered rice to include vitamin A for just that purpose. However, room for debate still exists. Scholars read two articles on golden rice with contrary conclusions and must decide what they believe.

Concepts

vitamins, genetic engineering, debate

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Additional Tags

science

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Instructional Ideas

• Discuss multiple approaches to solve the vitamin A problem rather than just golden rice
• Encourage everyone arguing both sides rather and seeing that the same facts often lead to different conclusions

Classroom Considerations

• Relies on prior knowledge of scientific arguments and vitamin A

Pros

• Encourages healthy debate
• Offers opportunities to read critically and consider fact versus opinion

Cons

• None

Common Core

RST.9-10.1 RST.9-10.2 RST.11-12.1 RST.11-12.2