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Personalized Medicine Lesson PlanPersonalized Medicine Lesson Plan
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Personal Genetics Education Project
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Grade
9th - 12th
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Science
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Personalized Medicine

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  • Patient's DNA May Be Signal to Tailor Medicaiton
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Genetics learners read an article and watch a video about personalized medicine and the hope it holds for treating patients more specifically than doctors currently are able to. They research, design, and produce a brochure about the possibilities. The link for the optional presentation does not work, but the website it leads to contains valuable resources for your genetics or bioethics unit.

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Concepts

bioethics, biotechnology

Additional Tags

biotechnology, bioethics, personlized medicine, science

Pros

  • Applicable to Common Core State Standards for science and technical subjects
  • A very current topic about cutting-edge technology
  • Links to many pertinent articles are included
  • Thorough lesson plan includes a scoring rubric

Cons

  • None

Common Core

RST.11-12.2 RST.11-12.6 RST.11-12.7

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