STUDENTS WILL HAVE TO CREATE A NEW SPECIES OF ANIMAL AND DESCRIBE IT. PLANNING : Ask your students what they know about genetic engineering.Put pictures of animal who have been modified on the board. It´s easy to find on Internet. Ask your students: Which animal(s) on those pictures have been genetically modified ? Tell them that the only one that is not genetically modified is the platypus. Cows: have been modified to give more milk. Chickens: have been modified to have bigger breast. Mouse: has been modified to grow a human ear. Ask your students: If you where an animal geneticist, what would you do? Tell your students that they will create a new species. Tell them that they will use all the words they learned about description in the last unit. Give page 1 :Create a new species Explain the example and read the text. Explain the section in orange. Give page 2: Create your new species. Ask some students to present their new species to the class. Stick all pages 2 on the wall. Start a discussion, ask them: Do you think we should genetically modify species? Why? Do you think we should genetically modify humans? Why?

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