Re: High School Level Radiation Education Curriculum?

["Michael C. Baker" <mcbaker@lanl.gov>]

Hello,

There is a teacher in Santa Fe who has helped the American Nuclear 
Society by giving presentations on using geiger counters in the 
classroom and introducing students to radiation.  He is an
excellent
speaker (I wish all my high school teachers could have been like 
him.)  His name is Jay Shelton <jshelton@roadrunner.com>. It
sounds
like his high school students get a fairly extensive introduction
to radiation and nuclear topics. 

Also, the University of New Mexico does a summer program (1 week long)
that introduces science teachers to nuclear topics and gives them
ideas on using them in the classroom. The faculty member at UNM who
organizes these workshops is Bob Busch <busch@unm.edu>. He uses
speakers from industry as well as academia.  

The "Science, Society and America's Nuclear Waste" curriculum
is 
available for downloading at

        

http://plutonium-erl.actx.edu/education.html

A curriculum guide for middle school students is also available 
at that web site.  The sections that I have had time to look
at,
appear very good.  It could likely be used as a starting point
for a more advanced curriculum. It is almost 300 pages long. Let
me know if you can find a teacher who has the classroom time to 
cover that amount of material.

Mike Baker ... mcbaker@lanl.gov



At 08:01 PM 1/19/99 -0600, you wrote:

Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:07:49 -0700
From: Kim Merritt <Merritt9@llnl.gov>
To: radsafe@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu
Subject: Re: High School Level Radiation Education Curriculum?

The series "Science, Society and America's Nuclear Waste" is pretty good,
although it is long enough to make a whole semester course out of.  It is a
DOE publication out of the Office of Civilian Rad Waste Management,
publication number DOE/RW-0361 SR.  The phone number in the book is
1-800-225-6972 but I have never called it to see if it still good.

I also found that the Las Alamos Science #22, 1995 adapts easily to high
school level education.  It is the one on the Human Radiation Experiments.
You may want to contact Dr. Debra Thrall at Sandia Prep in ABQ, she has
been my source for good educational materials.  There is also another
teacher at Santa Fe Prep, but I can't recall his name though, Deb can give
it to you.  They both have taken DOE workshops on educating high school
kids in nuclear science.

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