Can Leetso and Hozho' Coexist?
Uranium Education for Middle School Students
Evidence of Understanding #1
What evidence will show that students understand the consequences of nuclear resource extraction?
Performance Tasks, Projects:
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Poster Session:
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Working with a partner, students present a poster session that compares the
impacts of coal mining in West Virginia with the uranium mining in the 4-
corners states.
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Nuclear Game:
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Groups of 3 or 4 students will design a game that emphasizes the positive
aspects of the nuclear industry and radioactivity and/or radiation.
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Position Paper:
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Students will prepare a position paper (letter to the editor or editorial)
that addresses the question: Is reclamation possible?
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Quizzes, Tests, Academic Prompts, Lab Exercises:
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Lab activities:
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Uranium ores
Coal grades & ores
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Quiz: uranium ores, coal grades & ores
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Prompts:
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Describe the similarities and differences between
coal mines in West Virginia and uranium mines in the 4-corners states
using charts, graphs, and/or pictures.
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Detail & apply the benefits of nuclear energy,
nuclear medicine, and radioactivity in the design of a game.
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Provide examples of past, present and future mine
reclamation efforts that demonstrate the effectiveness of those projects
in your opinion.
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Other Evidence:
Informal observations during work on performance tasks.
Peer evaluations of group or partner projects.
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Student Self-Assessment:
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Self-evaluate all performance tasks.
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Evidence of Understanding #2
What evidence will show that students understand how you can live in harmony in a nuclear world?
Performance Tasks, Projects:
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Community Display:
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Groups of 3 or 4 students will prepare brochures, models, videos,
audio public service announcements (PSA's), comic strips, and/or posters that reduce fear
and misconceptions and encourage the community to exercise caution around uranium mines,
mills, tailings, and debris piles.
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Leetso poem or story:
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With a partner, students will write and illustrate a story or poem that
reflects at least 2 points of view about living in harmony in a nuclear age.
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Letter of application:
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Student will write a letter of application to one of the nuclear
energy constituents reflecting student's understanding of the issues related to
nuclear energy extraction and uses, in light of the concept of hozhó.
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Quizzes, Tests, Academic Prompts, Lab Exercises:
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Lab activities:
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Radioactivity (2)
Radiation (7)
Radon (2)
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Quiz: 3 R's: radiation, radioactivity, radon
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Prompts:
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Survey the community's attitudes and knowledge regarding uranium mining,
milling, radiation, radioactivity, and radon. Evaluate the results to survey.
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Describe at least two different characters who must
attempt to live in harmony with with the consequences of the development
of nuclear energy.
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Provide examples of self-knowledge regarding student
understanding of uranium extraction, the 3 R's, and the concept of hozhó.
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Other Evidence:
Informal observations during work on performance tasks.
Peer evaluations of group or partner projects.
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Student Self-Assessment:
Self-evaluate all performance tasks.
Venn diagram of self-knowledge
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Environmental
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