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Ethics and Bioethics Lessons
NEW! Bioethics 101 Curriculum
Download our draft Bioethics 101 Lessons. These lessons represent a “best of” compilation from our popular Ethics Primer, condensed to a 5-day, sequential, introduction to bioethics. Through the use of case studies, ethical principles, decision-making frameworks and stakeholder role-play, students are fully supported in learning how to justify an answer to an ethical question. If you’ve been looking for a structured way to introduce bioethics into your classroom, this is for you! This curriculum is in the field-test stage of development and, as such, we would also greatly welcome your feedback on these lessons.
Ethics Primer
The Ethics Primer provides engaging, interactive,
and classroom-friendly lesson ideas for integrating ethical issues
into a science classroom. It also provides basic background on ethics
as a discipline, with straightforward descriptions of major ethical
theories. Several decision-making frameworks are included to help
students apply reasoned analysis to ethical issues.
Although the Primer is designed for secondary school science classrooms,
it has been used by teachers in a variety of classes and grade levels.
It is particularly suited to social studies and integrated/interdisciplinary
classrooms. It has also been used with adults. The Primer is not designed to be used cover to cover. Teachers should
review materials and select lessons that fit their needs. The Primer
is also intended to be used as a general resource, with a wide variety
of topics.
The complete Ethics Primer is now available free for download. In order
for us to measure how our curriculum resources are being used, we request
that you please complete the brief information form before being directed
to the download page. We will not share your contact information with
anyone but may ask if you are willing to participate in the program evaluation conducted for our grant.
Development of the Ethics Primer was made
possible by 'Collaborations to Advance Understanding of Science in
Ethics', a Science Education Partnership Award from the National
Center for Research Resources, National Institutes of Health, 1R25RR016284-01A2.
Ethics in the Science Classroom
Lessons Developed by Participants
Developed by the participants of NWABR's annual Ethics in Science summer
workshop, these lesson plans illustrate how seamlessly ethics can be
tied to content issues in all disciplines in science and readily align
with State and National Standards. These lessons are generously shared
by teachers and permissions are granted for classroom use, provided appropriate
references are included. Over 30 lessons are available on topics as diverse
as salmon, research ethics, and reproductive technologies!
2008 Case Studies!
(Written by NWABR teachers)
2007 Teacher-Developed Action Plans
2006 Teacher-Developed Action Plans
(Developed individually or in groups) Our program has shifted to allow teachers to develop 'Action Plan' materials of direct relevance to their practice.
2002-2005 Teacher-Developed Lessons
(Developed in groups and categorized by topic)
Ethics in the Science Resource Links
Bioethics Curriculum from other organizations
NWABR is a 501(c)3 organization. All contributions
are tax deductible.
Copyright 1999-2009 Northwest Association
for Biomedical Research.
All rights reserved.
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