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Nuclear Energy

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Essential Question: Is nuclear power worth the risk?

Learning Objective: I can develop logical arguments regarding nuclear power
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Standards addressed: 
HS-ETS1-3: Evaluate a solution to a complex real-world problem based on prioritized criteria and trade-offs that account for a range of constraints, including cost, safety, reliability, and aesthetics as well as possible social, cultural, and environmental impacts.

In Class Sequence

Additional Resources

Lesson 1 (Engage)
  • QFT: Public Dread and Actual Deaths (See image below)
  • Socratic Seminar Briefing
  • Research questions chosen

Lesson 2 (Explore)
  • Begin research into your chosen question
  • Argumentative Essay Rubric
  • Basic Graphic Organizer for Persuasive Essays
  • Finding Reliable Sources
  • Link to ERS Portal

Lesson 3 (Explain)
  • Continue research
  • Radiation Slide Deck
Lesson 4 (Extend)
  • Compile and finish Argumentative Essay
  • Peer feedback and corrections
  • Sentence Frames for Socratic Seminar

Lesson 5 (Evaluate)
  • Essay Due (in hand, you will submit at end of seminar)
  • Socratic Seminar



Reading Material:
  • Know Nuclear
  • Nuclear Careers
  • What is Radiation
  • Facts about Radiation
  • How Does Radiation Affect Humans?
  • How far do you live from a reactor?
  • How far do you live from a coal plant?

Videos:
  • Pros and Cons of Nuclear Energy
  • Measuring Radiation
  • Virtual Field Trip of Palo Verde Power Plant
  • Coal Mining
General Sources:
  • Radiation Effects Research Foundation
  • Center for Nuclear Science and Technology Information
  • U.S. Department of Energy - Nuclear
Interactives:
  • Is Radiation Dangerous? TEDEd Lesson
​Hands-on:
  • Go make sure your smoke detectors have batteries.
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  • Home
  • Meet the Teacher
  • Chemistry
    • Chemistry Calendar
    • It's Elemental >
      • Periodic Table
      • Radiation
      • Nuclear Energy
    • The Bonds We Share >
      • Physical or Chemical?
      • Compounds
      • Be Trendy
    • Don't OverREACT >
      • Chemical Equations
      • Types of Reactions
      • Don't Drop the Base
    • Mass in Chemistry >
      • I have this weird Mole
      • Stoichiometry
      • I have the Solution!
    • Energy in Chemistry >
      • Intermolecular Forces
      • Heat in Reactions
      • Enthalpy
    • I Only Eat Organic >
      • Hydrocarbons
      • Biomolecules
      • Circle of Life
    • Final
  • Integrated Science II
    • Matter and Energy >
      • Matter and Its Properties
      • Energy and Matter
    • Heat and Energy >
      • Behavior of Matter
      • Behavior of Energy
      • Earth's Interior
    • Properties of Matter
    • Chemical Attractions
    • Energy In Reactions
    • Human Impact on the Atmosphere
    • Chemical Equilibrium