Lesson 6: Lesson 6: Chernobyl
Duration of Days: 2
Lesson Objective
Students will learn about the nuclear power plant disaster at Chernobyl in 1986 as a way of applying their understanding of nuclear decay and nuclear power plants to real world examples.
What happed at the nuclear power plan in Chernobyl in April of 1986?
How could have the disaster been prevented?
What caused the disaster to happen?
What are the short term and long term effects of the Chernobyl disaster?
PS1.C Nuclear Processes
Nuclear processes, including fusion, fission, and radioactive decays of unstable nuclei, involve release or absorption of energy. The total number of neutrons plus protons does not change in any nuclear process.
Students will learn about the Chernobyl disaster through recreation video and article to give them a sense of how what they learned about nuclear chemistry applies to real world situations.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1siFIsOAs45CxuUlyJt9dNRdT70eTva14fJMeE1qXHPk/edit?tab=t.0
Through a prompt students will need to write about what happened in Chrnobyl and what was learned to help prevent future disasters.