Personal Genetics Education Project

Based in the Department of Genetics at Harvard Medical School, the Personal Genetics Education Project (pgEd) promotes awareness and benefits as well as ethical, legal and social implications of personal genetics. This series of six interactive resources for teachers of secondary science will also engage students in discussions and debate about these topics:

• Consumer genetics
• Genetics, History and the American Eugenics Movement
• Genome Editing and CRISPR
• Introduction to personal genetics
• Personalised medicine
• Reproductive Genetic Testing: Technology, access and decision making 

Each resource provides background reading for both teacher and students alongside presentations, activities, worksheets and quiz sections. The guides contain information and activities that are designed to enhance students’ knowledge of genomics, to develop their skills of research, analysis and communication, and to suggest starting points for project work. The materials also extend student’s knowledge and understanding in the ethics and laws of this area of genetic development.