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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