Issues in-depth: Cloning: A critical analysis of myths and media

by: Roxanne Greitz Miller

The science behind cloning, and its long history, provide teachers with a real-life, high interest topic through which they can launch an effort to raise students’ media literacy skills. By blending science content with critical thinking and reflection through activities like the ones proposed here, teachers can help to impart to their students the observation and reflection skills necessary when examining media content in all subjects so that students might become independent and inquiring thinkers.

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Type Journal ArticlePub Date 3/1/2006Stock # ss06_029_06_70Volume 029Issue 06

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