Wednesday, March 18, 2009

Watching the Movie - GATTACA - Resources, Questions and Answer Key

Students watched the movie GATTACA (can be rented at a video store) and answered questions on a viewing guide.  There is a similar guide with questions at this web site:
http://mshartatgreenhope.googlepages.com/Week16.doc
This is part of our study of genetics.
The answer key for the viewing guide questions can be found here:





Here is another website that has questions about the movie GATTACA, and lessons about genetic engineering humans:
http://science.uniserve.edu.au/school/movies/gattaca.html

This is another website that has questions about GATTACA:
http://www.teachwithmovies.org/
https://www.facebook.com/teachwithmovies

My students also read an article about designer babies, and I designed a question sheet that goes with the reading: http://cavalierscience.blogspot.com/2009/03/gattaca-movie-and-designer-babies.html

Another post of interest: http://cavalierscience.blogspot.com/2010/07/longevity-genes-found-predict-chances.html

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