Student Page:
Task:
1. Students need to cooperate with their teammates in order to create a 3-5 minutes’ video, which can present how nuclear reaction happens.
2. Students need to have a debate, which theme is “Is nuclear energy benefit human or not?” The proposition need to do the research about the positive effects of nuclear energy and the opposition need to do the research about the negative impacts of nuclear energy.
3. Students in groups need to collaborate with their teammates in order to make an action plan about how to use nuclear energy in a proper way.
4. Student needs to write a reaction paper after class.
Process:
1. Introductory Activity:
Hello everyone. Now please imagine that you are a reporter in a local newspaper office. Your manager asks you to write a brief report of the nuclear disaster happening in Japan recently. Please collect information online then organize an objective report.
Requirements:
One: The report should cover following questions:
1. When and where does the nuclear disaster happen?
2. What is the direct cause of this nuclear disaster?
3. What has Japanese government done to limit the damage?
Useful websites for searching news:
Scholastic News Online
Two: Learning directions: You can add some pictures in your report to make your readers have a more direct feeling of this disaster.
Three: During this project, you will finish all the tasks on blog “Mocha and Linlin’s wonderland”. (http://mochaswonderland.blogspot.com/) You can post your report by replying the thread titled “Introductory Activity”. The deadline of giving your own ideas is 1st May 2011, but you can comment your classmates’ report anytime during the whole project.
Four: After finishing the report, please list all the questions you want to know about nuclear energy and post it on the title of the thread is “Questions to Nuclear Energy” on the blogger. With the learning of this project, maybe you can answer some of your and your classmates’ questions. Please feel free to share your answers or discuss your ideas by replying the message.
Now we will begin the wonderful exploration of the most formidable and mysterious power in the world! Enjoy your adventure in nuclear world!
2. Learning Section One:
*Before our class, the teacher will separate the class into four groups. Each group should sign up a blog on the Blogger website: http://www.blogger.com/
The teacher will post all the four blogger links on blog “Mocha and Linlin’s wonderland”. (http://mochaswonderland.blogspot.com/)*
After being a professional reporter and experiencing the nuclear disaster in Japan, I sure you are very interested in nuclear energy. Now, let’s go to know more about the most formidable and mysterious power in the world from, in other words, how Nuclear Reaction works.
First of all, please click the link about a video that is about how nuclear reaction works.
(Website link:)
Secondly, the teacher will give you a short presentation about how the nuclear reaction happens. (Lesson Plan Handout)
After knowing about how nuclear energy works and we are going to make a 3-5 minutes video with your teammates in order to present the process of nuclear energy happens.
Requirements: (Work Sheet 1)
After finishing the video, each group needs to post your masterwork on YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/). Then you need to post their video links on your blogs and the teacher’s blog. Meanwhile, you should watch other groups’ videos and give your feedback by replying the thread “LS One: Video Feedback” on their bloggers.
3. Learning Section Two:
*Before our class, the teacher will separate the class into four groups.*
For knowing more about the nuclear energy, there is a debate “Is nuclear energy benefit for human or not?”
Two teams are in the proposition (also called “Affirmative” or “Aff”); the other teams are in the opposition (also called “Negative” or “Neg”);
The rules and the rubrics of the debate will be posted on the thread “Debate rules and rubrics” on the blogger.
Debate information: http://www.learnnc.org/lp/pages/636
The First Work Day:
The proposition groups and the opposition groups start to collect information about their supporting resources.
The Second Work Day:
Debate
Before the debate, these four teams will ballot the orders of their debate.
The first turns are Aff Team A VS Neg Team A. The other two teams will be the judges and fill in the rubric forms.
The second turns are Aff Team B VS Neg Team B. The other two teams will be the judges and fill in the rubric forms.
After the debates, the teacher and some volunteers from each group will calculate the results of the debates. Each group should post their resources during the debate on their bloggers.
(Requirement: “Mocha and Linlin’s wonderland”. http://mochaswonderland.blogspot.com/)
4. Learning Section Three:
*Before our class, the teacher will separate the class into four groups.*
After the debate, we are going to have another task, that is, work with your teammates to make an action plan about how to use nuclear energy in a proper way.
(Action Plan Temple: [attachment]
When you finish the action plan, you need to post it on the title of the thread is “Action plan about nuclear energy” on the blogger, and need to evaluate other teams’ action plan.
(Requirement: “Mocha and Linlin’s wonderland”. http://mochaswonderland.blogspot.com/)
5. Ending Activity:
After learning about the nuclear energy, I am sure you gain a lot and you also have many thoughts about it. Please write a reaction paper about what you think are most important in this class. (Work Sheet 4)
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