DAY 1
Get into a group of 3 or 4 and brainstorm on topics related to Radiation and its effect on people.
There are positive effects of radiation, such as for the following: Your topics are not limited to the following topics but these are some ideas:
Pure research in radiation: discovering elements
Discovering DNA using x-ray diffraction
Nuclear Power plants save energy
Nuclear medicine
- using isotopes for cancer treatment
- isotopes for imaging and diagnosis (breast cancer, x-rays, angiograms etc)
- using subatomic particles to treat eye cancer at TRIUMF
There are negative effects:
The atomic bomb story. making the bomb
aftereffects of the bomb - victim impact Hiroshima, Nagasaki
Nuclear accidents - Chermobyl and other nuclear melt-downs
Japanese Tsunami and the radiation leak from nuclear power plants
Contamination of the ecosystem
ON A PIECE OF PAPER:
WRITE DOWN YOUR IDEAS ON THE POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE EFFECTS. Read the books provided by our librarian and come up with four proposals for a group presentation:
2 proposals deal with negative effects
2 proposals deal with positive effects
hand in this paper for 5 marks today
