A cross curricular unit focusing on how much and what kinds of foods are produced because of pesticides and genetically engineered foods. Students will investigate the impact on humans due to the new technology in food production. Topics covered include population, pesticide, toxicology, genetics, resource conflict, negotiating peace, and the media and current events. The unit uses content standards for tenth grade in math, biology, world history, and language arts.

Concepts

genetics, human rights, pesticides, population, propaganda, toxicology

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Additional Tags

environmental health, human health, effective debate, genetically engineer, resource conflict

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Classroom Considerations

• Knovation Readability Score: 5 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)

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