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A Blast From the Past With Nuclear Chemistry

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Title:

 A Blast From the Past With Nuclear Chemistry

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Content Source:

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Type: Lesson/Unit Plan

Overview:

After students have studied the basics of fusion and fission as well as the splitting of the atom, groups of three choose a nuclear chemistry topic to research, finding the “what, how, where, and why” of their subject. After conducting their research, students use the free Web 2.0 tool Timetoast to construct an online timeline that features fifteen important facts with images and captions about their topic. Students then use the timelines to present their newly acquired knowledge to the class.

Content Standard(s):
English Language Arts
ELA2021 (2021)
Grade: 11
8. Read, analyze, and evaluate texts from science, social studies, and other academic disciplines and explain how those disciplines treat domain-specific vocabulary and content and organize information.
Unpacked Content
Teacher Vocabulary:
8.
  • Academic disciplines
  • Domain-specific vocabulary
  • Content organization
Knowledge:
8. Students know:
  • Strategies to read, analyze, and evaluate texts from various academic disciplines.
  • Content-specific text will often include a particular structure and domain-specific vocabulary.
Skills:
8. Students are able to:
  • Read, analyze, and evaluate texts from subjects other than English language arts to determine the use of domain-specific vocabulary.
  • Read, analyze, and evaluate texts from subjects other than English language arts to determine how the academic discipline organizes content.
Understanding:
8. Students understand that:
  • Different academic disciplines may utilize different vocabulary.
  • Different academic disciplines may arrange content in particular organizational styles.
English Language Arts
ELA2021 (2021)
Grade: 11
13. Synthesize multiple sources of information (including diverse media), evaluate the credibility and accuracy of each source, and share information orally.
Unpacked Content
Teacher Vocabulary:
13.
  • Synthesize
  • Diverse media
  • Evaluate
  • Credibility
  • Accuracy
Knowledge:
13. Students know:
  • Strategies to synthesize information from multiple, diverse sources.
  • Presentation skills.
  • Strategies to evaluate information from multiple sources.
Skills:
13. Students are able to:
  • Discern credible and accurate sources from a variety of sources.
  • Synthesize information from multiple, diverse sources.
  • Orally present the synthesized information.
Understanding:
13. Students understand that:
  • Oral presentations should only incorporate information from credible, accurate sources.
  • Information from multiple sources can be combined into an effective presentation.
English Language Arts
ELA2021 (2021)
Grade: 11
24. Evaluate the credibility of sources in terms of authority, relevance, accuracy, and purpose.

a. Assess the usefulness of written information to answer a research question, solve a problem, or take a position.
Unpacked Content
Teacher Vocabulary:
24.
  • Evaluate
  • Credibility
  • Authority
  • Relevance
  • Accuracy
  • Purpose
24a.
  • Assess
  • Written information
Knowledge:
24. Students know:
  • Strategies to assess the credibility of research sources.
  • Features of authoritative, relevant, and accurate research sources.
24a.
  • Strategies to locate relevant and credible written information.
  • Credible information is accurate and reliable.
  • Criteria to determine the usefulness a research source.
  • Information learned through reading can be used to answer a research question, solve a problem, or take a position.
Skills:
24. Students are able to:
  • Evaluate the credibility of research sources in terms of authority, relevance, accuracy, and purpose.
24a.
  • Locate useful written information in the research process.
  • Determine the usefulness of a research source.
  • Use research findings to answer a research question, solve a problem, or take a position.
Understanding:
24. Students understand that:
  • Before using a source in their research projects, they should evaluate the credibility of the source in terms of its authority, relevance, accuracy, and purpose.
24a.
  • It is necessary to determine the usefulness of a source before using it as evidence to answer a research question, solve a problem, or take a position.
English Language Arts
ELA2021 (2021)
Grade: 11
27. Synthesize research results, using responsible, ethical practices to gather information, and write clear, coherent products demonstrating command of language that is suitable for the target audience and purpose.
Unpacked Content
Teacher Vocabulary:
27.
  • Synthesize
  • Responsible research practices
  • Ethical research practices
  • Command of language
  • Target audience
  • Purpose
Knowledge:
27. Students know:
  • Strategies to synthesize research findings from multiple sources.
  • Responsible and ethical research practices.
  • Grade-appropriate writing skills.
  • The conventions of standard, formal English.
  • Strategies to modify writing for a particular audience and purpose.
Skills:
27. Students are able to:
  • Synthesize research findings from multiple sources.
  • Write clear, coherent documents using responsible and ethical research practices.
  • Incorporate conventions of formal, standard English into clear, coherent writing products.
  • Modify writing to be suitable for a particular audience and purpose.
Understanding:
27. Students understand that:
  • An effective research project will include a synthesis of multiple information sources.
  • Ethical and responsible research practices are necessary when writing academic and workplace documents.
  • The conventions of standard, formal English are necessary for effective academic and workplace communication.
  • Written language should be adapted, depending on the audience and purpose.
English Language Arts
ELA2021 (2021)
Grade: 11
29. Compose clear, coherent writing that incorporates information from a variety of scholarly and non-scholarly sources and demonstrates a clear position on a topic, answers a research question, or presents a solution to a problem.
Unpacked Content
Teacher Vocabulary:
29.
  • Scholarly source
  • Non-scholarly source
Knowledge:
29. Students know:
  • The difference between a scholarly and non-scholarly source.
  • Research skills.
  • Formal, academic writing skills.
  • Information learned through the research process can be used to answer a question, solve a problem, or take a position.
Skills:
29. Students are able to:
  • Incorporate information from a variety of scholarly and non-scholarly sources into a written document.
  • Compose clear and coherent writing to defend a position, answer a question, or present a solution to a problem by using evidence from source documents.
Understanding:
29. Students understand that:
  • A combination of scholarly and non-scholarly sources can be utilized in writing.
  • Scholarly sources can give credibility to academic and workplace documents.
  • Effective writing is clear and coherent and utilizes a variety of research sources.
English Language Arts
ELA2021 (2021)
Grade: 11
30. Synthesize research using responsible and ethical practices to create and orally present clear, coherent products demonstrating command of language that is suitable for the target audience and purpose.
Unpacked Content
Teacher Vocabulary:
30.
  • Synthesize
  • Responsible research practices
  • Ethical research practices
  • Command of language
  • Target audience
  • Purpose
Knowledge:
30. Students know:
  • Strategies to synthesize research findings from multiple sources.
  • Responsible and ethical research practices.
  • Oral presentation skills.
  • The conventions of standard, formal English.
  • Strategies to modify spoken language for a particular audience and purpose.
Skills:
30. Students are able to:
  • Synthesize research findings from multiple sources.
  • Orally present clear, coherent products using responsible and ethical research practices.
  • Incorporate conventions of formal, standard English into clear, coherent presentations.
  • Modify spoken language to be suitable for a particular audience and purpose.
Understanding:
30. Students understand that:
  • An effective presentation will include a synthesis of multiple information sources.
  • Ethical and responsible research practices are necessary when creating academic and workplace presentations.
  • The conventions of standard, formal English are necessary for effective academic and workplace communication.
  • Spoken language should be adapted, depending on the audience and purpose.
English Language Arts
ELA2021 (2021)
Grade: 12
8. Read, analyze, and evaluate texts from science, social studies, and other academic disciplines and explain how those disciplines treat domain-specific vocabulary and content and organize information.
Unpacked Content
Teacher Vocabulary:
8.
  • Academic disciplines
  • Domain-specific vocabulary
  • Content organization
Knowledge:
8. Students know:
  • Strategies to read, analyze, and evaluate texts from various academic disciplines.
  • Content-specific text will often include a particular structure and domain-specific vocabulary.
Skills:
8. Students are able to:
  • Read, analyze, and evaluate texts from subjects other than English language arts to determine the use of domain-specific vocabulary.
  • Read, analyze, and evaluate texts from subjects other than English language arts to determine how the academic discipline organizes content.
Understanding:
8. Students understand that:
  • Different academic disciplines may utilize different vocabulary.
  • Different academic disciplines may arrange content in particular organizational styles.
English Language Arts
ELA2021 (2021)
Grade: 12
13. Evaluate the credibility and accuracy of sources from diverse media and/or formats and then use multiple suitable sources of information to develop an idea or further a position.
Unpacked Content
Teacher Vocabulary:
13.
  • Evaluate
  • Credibility
  • Accuracy
  • Diverse media
Knowledge:
13. Students know:
  • Presentation skills.
  • Strategies to evaluate the credibility and accuracy of multiple, diverse sources.
  • Synthesize information from multiple sources to develop an idea or further a position.
Skills:
13. Students are able to:
  • Discern credible and accurate sources from a variety of sources.
  • Synthesize information from multiple, diverse sources.
  • Utilize multiple sources of information to develop an idea or further a position.
Understanding:
13. Students understand that:
  • Oral presentations should only incorporate information from credible, accurate sources.
  • Information from multiple sources can be combined into an effective presentation that develops an idea or furthers a position.
English Language Arts
ELA2021 (2021)
Grade: 12
24. Evaluate the credibility of sources in terms of authority, relevance, accuracy, and purpose.

a. Assess the usefulness of written information to answer a research question, solve a problem, or take a position.
Unpacked Content
Teacher Vocabulary:
24.
  • Evaluate
  • Credibility
  • Authority
  • Relevance
  • Accuracy
  • Purpose
24a.
  • Assess
  • Written information
Knowledge:
24. Students know:
  • Strategies to assess the credibility of research sources.
  • Features of authoritative, relevant, and accurate research sources.
24a.
  • Strategies to locate relevant and credible written information.
  • Credible information is accurate and reliable.
  • Criteria to determine the usefulness a research source.
  • Information learned through reading can be used to answer a research question, solve a problem, or take a position.
Skills:
24. Students are able to:
  • Evaluate the credibility of research sources in terms of authority, relevance, accuracy, and purpose.
24a.
  • Locate useful written information in the research process.
  • Determine the usefulness of a research source.
  • Use research findings to answer a research question, solve a problem, or take a position.
Understanding:
24. Students understand that:
  • Before using a source in their research projects, they should evaluate the credibility of the source in terms of its authority, relevance, accuracy, and purpose.
24a.
  • It is necessary to determine the usefulness of a source before using it as evidence to answer a research question, solve a problem, or take a position.
English Language Arts
ELA2021 (2021)
Grade: 12
27. Synthesize research results, using responsible, ethical practices to gather information, and write clear, coherent products demonstrating command of language that is suitable for the target audience and purpose.
Unpacked Content
Teacher Vocabulary:
27.
  • Synthesize
  • Responsible research practices
  • Ethical research practices
  • Command of language
  • Target audience
  • Purpose
Knowledge:
27. Students know:
  • Strategies to synthesize research findings from multiple sources.
  • Responsible and ethical research practices.
  • Grade-appropriate writing skills.
  • The conventions of standard, formal English.
  • Strategies to modify writing for a particular audience and purpose.
Skills:
27. Students are able to:
  • Synthesize research findings from multiple sources.
  • Write clear, coherent documents using responsible and ethical research practices.
  • Incorporate conventions of formal, standard English into clear, coherent writing products.
  • Modify writing to be suitable for a particular audience and purpose.
Understanding:
27. Students understand that:
  • An effective research project will include a synthesis of multiple information sources.
  • Ethical and responsible research practices are necessary when writing academic and workplace documents.
  • The conventions of standard, formal English are necessary for effective academic and workplace communication.
  • Written language should be adapted, depending on the audience and purpose.
English Language Arts
ELA2021 (2021)
Grade: 12
29. Compose clear, coherent writing that incorporates information from a variety of scholarly and non-scholarly sources and demonstrates a clear position on a topic, answers a research question, or presents a solution to a problem.
Unpacked Content
Teacher Vocabulary:
29.
  • Scholarly source
  • Non-scholarly source
Knowledge:
29. Students know:
  • The difference between a scholarly and non-scholarly source.
  • Research skills.
  • Formal, academic writing skills.
  • Information learned through the research process can be used to answer a research question, present a solution to a problem, or take a position.
Skills:
29. Students are able to:
  • Incorporate information from a variety of scholarly and non-scholarly sources into a written document.
  • Compose clear and coherent writing to defend a position, answer a question, or present a solution to a problem by using evidence from source documents.
Understanding:
29. Students understand that:
  • A combination of scholarly and non-scholarly sources can be utilized in writing.
  • Scholarly sources can give credibility to academic and workplace documents.
  • Effective writing is clear and coherent and utilizes a variety of research sources.
English Language Arts
ELA2021 (2021)
Grade: 12
30. Synthesize research using responsible and ethical practices to create and orally present clear, coherent products demonstrating command of language that is suitable for the target audience and purpose.
Unpacked Content
Teacher Vocabulary:
30.
  • Synthesize
  • Responsible research practices
  • Ethical research practices
  • Command of language
  • Target audience
  • Purpose
Knowledge:
30. Students know:
  • Strategies to synthesize research findings from multiple sources.
  • Responsible and ethical research practices.
  • Oral presentation skills.
  • The conventions of standard, formal English.
  • Strategies to modify spoken language for a particular audience and purpose.
Skills:
30. Students are able to:
  • Synthesize research findings from multiple sources.
  • Orally present clear, coherent products using responsible and ethical research practices.
  • Incorporate conventions of formal, standard English into clear, coherent presentations.
  • Modify spoken language to be suitable for a particular audience and purpose.
Understanding:
30. Students understand that:
  • An effective presentation will include a synthesis of multiple information sources.
  • Ethical and responsible research practices are necessary when creating academic and workplace presentations.
  • The conventions of standard, formal English are necessary for effective academic and workplace communication.
  • Spoken language should be adapted, depending on the audience and purpose.
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