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Weekly Overview:

Unit Description: Chemical reactions and atomic structure.

Chapter Essential Questions: Can students differentiate between fission and fusion? Can determine why nuclear radiation is a “double edged sword”?

Standards/Benchmarks: PS - A!, G4, B4, B2, E1

Objectives:

1. Explain nuclear fusion and fission.
2. Calculate half-life problems.
3. Describe how radioactive tracers work.

1. Explain nuclear fusion and fission.
2. Calculate half-life problems.
3. Explain how various devices detect radiation.

1. Calculate half-life problems.
2. Review this week and last week’s objectives.

1. Exam review.
2. Standardized question practice.

1. Exam review.
2. Standardized question practice.

Student Learning Activities:

1. Notes discussion on fission, fusion, and radioactive dating.
2. Finish articles and summaries.
3. Homework pg. 278, 1-5.
4. Tell grades on 15 element poster.

1. Video on fission and fusion. 20 min.
2. Half – life problems.
3. Detecting radiation. 5 min video( all videos from discovery ed. Site.

1. Continue half- life problems.
2. Review questions pgs 286-287.

1. Exam review.
2. Standardized questions on chemical reactions.

1. Exam review.
2. Standardized questions on nuclear radiation.

Homework: