Harvest of Fear
Internet Lesson
| Objective: Students will investigate the arguments for and against genetically modified crops. As part of this lesson they will perform a shockwave simulation to genetically engineer larger corn, and look at different types of plants that are being genetically modified. |
Site: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/harvest/
Should we Grow GM Crops?
Instructions: Read the page and click YES or NO, reach the next...click YES
or NO...etc until you’ve read all the arguments -- You will need to
do this 12 times in order for your votes to be tallied. Navigate
the site, each of the bold headings below are links within the site
1. What is a GM Crop.
2. List 2 arguments FOR the growing of GM crops
3. List 2 arguments AGAINST the growing of GM crops.
*Read some of the reader’s responses.
Engineer a Crop
4. Practice this simulation until you get the largest ears of corn. How many
times did it take you?
What’s for Dinner?
*Click on the foods on the table to see what research is being done to bioenginner
the foods.
5. List two foods and desribe how they are being modified.
Viewpoints
*Read the article titled “Are GM Food Sufficiently Regulated in the US?”
Do you think food should be labeled if it has been genetically modified? Why
or Why not?
Finished? Go to www.yahooligans.com and type "genetic engineering" in the search field. Browse some of the sites that pop up.
(Yahooligans is better than yahoo, the sites tend to be picked for education rather than for scientists and universities, you'll find more understandable and interesting sites on yahooligans than you will with Yahoo)
Write down any of the sites you visited below.