Lesson Plan: Updating ‘GMO Food Fears and the First Test Tube Tomato’ (QFT)
Grades 5-12
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“GMO Food Fears and the First Test Tube Tomato” (Transcript) was made in 2013. This film has not been updated, giving students an opportunity to consider how the film could be updated to reflect other ideas or more recent developments, and to contemplate the responsibilities of journalists in their approach to film media.
In this lesson, students will demonstrate higher-order thinking skills using a simple but rigorous step-by-step process to formulate better questions. They will then use their questions to drive learning.
Source: The Question Formulation Technique (QFT) was created by the Right Question Institute (rightquestion.org). It empowers learners to conceptualize and express their thinking without having to depend primarily on teacher/ facilitator questioning.
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