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Peer reviewedBarksdale, Francia – Gifted Child Today Magazine, 1996
This article describes an interdisciplinary classroom project in which ninth graders simulate a "World Council on Genetic Technology." Students in small groups take on the persona and interests of individuals from specific countries in the group effort to develop a covenant for regulating the use of biotechnology. The benefits of having gifted…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Bioethics, Biotechnology, Ethical Instruction
