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Group 4 Project. Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Disaster. Objective. A group of 4 students will produce a video that details a scientific article connected to the topic of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Disaster.
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Group 4 Project Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Disaster
Objective • A group of 4 students will produce a video that details a scientific article connected to the topic of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Disaster. • The students will belong to the same subject group - i.e. All Bio students work in the same group. The exception to this rule is the Environmental System Students (Only 2 students) • On March 30th from 4-6 pm we will watch these movies at a Science Symposium in the cafeteria with staff members from the school, your fellow students, and families of students.
Resources to find an article • You may want to start with Wikipedia for some general background information on the incident. (This will not be your actual article) • Another place for article ideas is sciencedaily.com and sciencenews.org • However, your article must be peer reviewed and come from a scientific journal. Here are resources for where to find these: • PLOS (public library of science), • Scitable, • DOE (department of energy), • NNSA (National Nuclear Security Administration), • Google scholar, • Pub med central, • PNAS (Publications of the National Academy of Sciences).
Movie OBjectives • Title • Background Information (You will most likely have to look outside your article for this) • Summary of Findings. • Relevance of Article • - Political • - Historical • - Health • - Environmental • - Etc. • Participation from all students involved (we must hear you or see you presenting in the movie) • 5-7 Minutes in length, No more, No less!
Guidelines • Know what you are talking about. (If you don’t understand something do more research!) • Don’t plagiarize. (Don’t read to us from the article, summarize ideas) • Understand all graphs and charts (its good practice to start with the title of the graph and what the axis are representing including units. Explain any weird units) • Don’t make assumptions. You are the expert on your article. We are hearing it for the first time. • If these guidelines are not followed the video will be sent back to you to redo.
Deadlines • March 12. -Article submission to Mr. Wedel (email is fine kwedel@tusd.net) • March 21 -Video is uploaded to youtube and an email is sent to Mr. Brown with a link to the video. (kbrown@tusd.net) • March 30th -Presentation of Videos in cafeteria from 4 - 6 pm • -Self Reflection (including your strengths, weaknesses, contributions, and growth from participating given to your subject specific teacher. • -Time Log given to your subject specific teacher.
Timelog Example • Introduction to group 4 - 1 hour • Research – 4 hours • Creating Video – 2 hours • Science Symposium – 2 hours • Reflection - 1 hour • Total: 1o hours