Start seeing double. The American Museum of Natural History website provides pupils with information about Dolly, the cloned sheep. Learners find out the procedure used to create Dolly along with why scientists clone animals.

Concepts

cloning, genetics, dna, dna extraction, dna replication, genetic engineering, genetic code, genes

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Additional Tags

science

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Instructional Ideas

• Use the questions on the pop-up cards as assessment questions to check for understanding
• Provide the class with the website to start a remote instruction research project on cloning

Classroom Considerations

• It is helpful if individuals know about the structure of a cell

• This resource is only available on an unencrypted HTTP website.It should be fine for general use, but don’t use it to share any personally identifiable information

Pros

• Remote learning resource includes links to reference cards for important aspects of the information
• Contains information in an easily readable format

Cons

• None