Black Collar Goal: Donna Moren and Terry Monty Book: Brave New World Big Questions: 1.

How do you know who you are? (nature, nurture) 2. Ethically, what responsibility does science have? Plan: 1. Students will work on research in pairs Guided questions about human cloning from teachers Decisions about the validity of sources Keeping a log of research to be used in a later case study Individual response to a case study about whether a couple whose child has died will be allowed to clone him; students will write as a judge handing down a court decision Enduring Understandings (for research): 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. How is cloning done? How successful has these techniques been in the past? When has it been used? Why has it been done? Has human cloning ever been attempted/accomplished? What are the present laws concerning human cloning? Is human behavior driving by nature/nurture/both? How do we know? Will cloning ever have an effect on the evolution of organisms? How? Positive or negative? (advanced students only)