Connect the Issue to Course Content Goals
The key to a successful implementation is to find current socioscientific issues that are relevant to the specific set of students in the class and connect to the instructor's content learning goals for the course. Issues are multidisciplinary, self-guided, and open-ended so that a particular issue can be implemented in more than one subject area. For example, the issue of captive breeding in zoos could be a point of engagement to teach students about natural selection, biodiversity, inbreeding, or basic principles of genetics.