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Geena Taite; Helene Leonard; Amanda Provost; Nicole Panorkou – Mathematics Teacher: Learning and Teaching PK-12, 2024
It has been over thirty years since the nuclear reactor meltdown at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, but why there is still an officially designated exclusion zone? The Chernobyl Disaster Task combines the learning of exponential functions with properties of radioactive substances to help students understand the ongoing effects of the meltdown.…
Descriptors: Radiation, Nuclear Energy, Mathematical Models, Mathematical Logic
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Kenneth J. Saltman – Review of Education, Pedagogy & Cultural Studies, 2024
From climate disaster to the specter of nuclear annihilation to the rise of fascism and destruction of democracy to the advent of AI and other potentially destructive technologies, a number of material threats are matched by symbolic threats that undermine the capacities of people to respond. The war on public and critical education and the public…
Descriptors: Ecology, Privatization, Environmental Education, Climate
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Zübeyde Çiçek; Murat Genç – Journal of Inquiry Based Activities, 2024
The purpose of this study is to develop a lesson plan that will facilitate the instruction of socioscientific issues and the acquisition of twenty-first century skills. To this end, a lesson plan comprising four hours of instruction was devised and presented in comprehensive detail. Three distinct activities were devised and executed as part of…
Descriptors: Lesson Plans, Science and Society, 21st Century Skills, Nuclear Energy
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Dominik Diermann; Jenna Koenen – Journal of Chemical Education, 2024
Most chemistry students struggle with interpreting and understanding NMR (nuclear magnetic resonance) spectra and the general concepts of NMR spectroscopy. NMR spectroscopy seems to be difficult to both teach and learn. Therefore, the corresponding courses should be investigated in more detail. We conducted a survey with N = 39 German university…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Science Instruction, Spectroscopy, Nuclear Energy
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Sevgül Çalis – Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2024
This study focuses on examining the mental models of 11th and 12th-grade students attending a science high school in Turkey regarding the concept of the electron cloud. The study involved 72 students and employed the case study method. The precondition for selecting the sample was that the students had covered the unit on modern atomic theory in…
Descriptors: High School Students, Secondary School Science, Grade 11, Grade 12
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Mónika Szente-Varga – History of Education Review, 2024
Purpose: This research aims to contribute to History of Education Studies as well as to New Cold War Studies, by examining a Reactor Technology Specialist Engineer program, launched in Hungary three times in the 1980s for Cuban nuclear engineers, graduates of the University of Havana. Design/methodology/approach: The institutional setting, the…
Descriptors: Cubans, Engineering Education, Study Abroad, Nuclear Energy