Standards

Standards and Performed Objectives:

Environmental Education: Environmental Issues

Grade 8, Environmental Education Standard 5 Environmental Issues:

5.4.1: Students will be able to assess the nuclear energy situation and evaluate its alternative solutions, then work cooperatively to implement an action plan about how to use nuclear energy properly.

Objective: After assessing the nuclear energy situation and evaluating these solutions, students will cooperatively to implement an action plan about how to use nuclear energy properly with 85% accuracy.

Science: Physics

Grade 8, Science standard 2B Physics:

2B.3.1: Students will be able to know about the process of nuclear reaction, that is one of the four fundamental forces in nature: nuclear focus.

Objective: After observation about the nuclear reaction, students will understand about the process of the nuclear reaction and work cooperatively to implement a video about how nuclear reaction happens with 90% accuracy.

Reading

Grade 8, Reading Standard

1.4.10: Students will be able to identify the topic, main idea(s), supporting details, and theme(s) in text across the content areas and from a variety of sources in appropriate-level texts. 

Objective: After reading the information, students will identify what kind of information they need and select the information to support their viewpoint in the debate with 100% accuracy.

Writing

Grade 8, Writing Standard

1.4.2: Students will be able to use (1) personal experience (2) observations (3) prior knowledge (4) research important for nuclear energy in order to reach a conclusion and use an appropriate point or view in the reaction paper.

Objective: After making the appropriate point or view about nuclear energy, students will be able to write a reaction paper with 90% accuracy.

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