Science on Country: Genetics & Human Heredity

Learning intentions

Students will:

• explore the role of DNA and genes in heredity and how understandings of human heredity from a First Nations cultural perspective compare to the current Western scientific understanding of genetics.

Success criteria

Students can:

• articulate the role of genetics in the survival of the human species

• consider how Kinship systems demonstrate consideration and understanding of genetics and heredity

• identify the critical discoveries in Western science regarding genetics since the mid-19th century

• reflect on the difference between First Nations knowledge construction and Western science ‘scientific method’