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Students create visual displays explaining how nuclear power is used to produce electricity. They create a display board that shows the chain reaction, the fission process, and a schematic diagram of the reactor. Full Review »
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- 8th
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Students use maps, lecture and research to explore the history and social context of the Cold War. They examine films, music and important figures of the era. Full Review »
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- 6th - 8th
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Students examine nuclear plants and how they use fission reactions to generate electricity, compare fusion reactions to fission, and read about technology that may soon allow fusion to become practical for producing nuclear power commercially. Full Review »
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- 5th
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Students study the life cycle of an organism from birth to growth, reproduction, and death. They investigate the differences between living and non-living things. Full Review »
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- 6th - 8th
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Students participate in a lab activity in which they simulate the process of nuclear fission. They make predictions and write down their observations during the activity. They share their results with the class. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students examine concepts of nuclear chemistry. They compare and contrast the topics of nuclear fission and nuclear fision. They predict the outcome of reactions based on the types of emissions and reactants. Full Review »
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- 6th
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Students investigate how asexual reproduction produces single-parent offspring. They use plants and yeast to demonstrate vegetative propagation and budding in a laboratory. Students draw five different types of asexual reproduction. Full Review »
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- 8th
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Students study the importance of cell division, compare cell division in prokaryotic and eucaryotic cells, identify the stages of mitosis and recognize meiosis in reproductive cells. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students apply their knowledge of relativity and nuclear radiation to the concept of cold fusion. They also read the article from the website listed in the related and resource websites and discuss the article with the class. Full Review »
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- 11th - 12th
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Students examine how nuclear reactions differ from other chemical reactions they have studied. They add up atomic masses of both the product and reactant side of an example of uranium decomposition, demonstrating mass loss involved. Full Review »

