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Day 3: Making a Recommendation—Selecting from a Range of Policy Options1PurposeThe purpose of Day 3 is to introduce students to the process of making policy recommendations for thehuman-animal cases using a decision-making continuum. The day’s activities integrate the concepts of previousdays. Students will then return to Alba’s case, introduced on Day 1. They should take both the scientificfacts and the ethical considerations into account when they make a recommendation for this case.2Activity 7:Summing Up the Ethical ConsiderationsEstimated Time: 10–15 minutesThe purpose of this activity—which you should move through quickly—is to give students the opportunity to compare their responses before andafter discussing the ethical considerations. Their Round 2 views will be usedto formulate policy recommendations for the final assessment.3Procedure1. Ask students to review their homework, Round 2 on Master 6.3.2. Invite students to follow the procedure from Day 2 forplacing stickers on the class poster to match their Round 2Tip from the Fieldrecommendations. This time, students will place green, yellow, orThis activity can be modified if youred stickers under the Round 2 column.gauge that your students have notchanged their responses from3. Ask students, “How has the pattern changed, if at all, from Round 1. To save time, you can askRound 1?”students to raise their hands thistime around instead of putting upPossible questions to draw students’ responses could includethe stickers.• Why do you think there have been shifts in some of the stickers?• For those of you who placed a different color sticker next to a case in Round 2 than you did in Round 1, why did you change your sticker placement?454. Reemphasize that students’ reactions in Round 2 may differfrom Round 1, after they have thought more deeply about theethical considerations.Even if their decisions about the ethical acceptability of the case have not changed, by thinking about the ethical considerations, students’Module 6 6-216