Alpha and Beta Decay

Goal:
Identify patterns in how a nucleus changes in alpha or beta decay.

Agenda:
Finish ACT
Teamwork Rubric
Warmup
Phet Simulations
Exit Ticket

Finish ACT
Periods 1 and 2 need to finish the ACT. You have 10 minutes. Do your best.

Teamwork Rubric
Choose a facilitator, scribe, and timer. Follow the provided protocol for teamwork evaluation.

Warmup
On the provided paper, write down 1 question or wondering you have about radiation based on what you learned yesterday.

Phet Simulations

1. Create a new journal entry entitled "Alpha and Beta Decay." 
2. Copy these questions into your science journal.
3. Using a computer, answer the questions in your journal by using the Phet simulations
1. Alpha Decay
2. Beta Decay

Exit Ticket

Complete the exit ticket. 

Radiation and ACT

Goal: 
Learn a bit about radiation all around you.
Show how well you understand data analysis, experimental design, and scientific arguments.

Agenda:
Warmup
Personal Radiation Dose
ACT Test

Warmup

Kahoot!

Personal Radiation Dose

Complete this worksheet to estimate your annual personal radiation dose. 

ACT Test
This is a science diagnostic. All DLA scholars will be taking this test. You do not need to know science, you need to know experiments and analysis. You must answer every question.

FINISH YOUR INFOGRAPHIC

Goal:
Finish infographics

Agenda:
Finish Infographic

Finish Infographic

Remember you are combining the draft infographics into one super awesome infographic. DON'T LOSE MEMARZADEH'S ART SUPPLIES OR I WILL SEND HER AFTER YOU. 

Work on Infographics

Goal:
Finish draft infographic and start final infographic. Remember, your final infographics are due tomorrow at the end of class. After that you will have no time in class to work so USE YOUR TIME WISELY. 

Agenda:
Survey
Finish Draft Infographic
Start Final Infographic

Survey

Message from Mr. Nuthall. "We are applying for an ASSET grant that will bring us significant funds to extend before and after school activities. The 200K would be helpful in so many ways. The application requires scholar survey results. The survey is due this week and it is very short. Here is the link: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/X78W26W"

Finish Draft Infographic

Finish your individual draft infographic. When you are done, turn it in on Haiku. 

Start Final Infographic

Here you will combine the draft infographics into one super awesome infographic. You might want to draft how they will go together on a whiteboard before you draw the final thing. Get a piece of 11x17 paper from the sub. I borrowed markers and colored pencils from Memarzadeh. DON'T LOSE THEM OR I WILL SEND HER AFTER YOU. 

Intro to Infographics

Goal:Visually explain a scientific phenomenon.

Agenda:
Warmup
Why Infographics?
How to Infographic
Brainstorm
Create

Warmup
With your group, look at the following 4 infographics.

• 70 Years of Batman Evolution
• Facebooking Your Parents
• +50 Ways of Visualizing BP’s Dark Mess
• Then/Now: Same Camping Gear Essentials, But Better

Discuss the following questions:

1. What strategies were used to present the information?
2. Which infographic was best? Why?

Why Infographics?

Watch this TED talk (start at ~7:45) and think about why data visualization is useful. 

How To Infographic
In creating infographics, there are a few strategies and tools to employ. Read about them here:

• LATCH
• 8 Types of Infographics
• Inverted Pyramid

Brainstorm

You will create infographics to answer your museum project question. Grab a whiteboard and answer the following questions with your project group:

1. What are all of the possible phenomena you need to explain to answer your third grader's question?
2. Which information, facts, and data are essential to include? Which aren’t?
3. What colors and layout works best in sharing the information?
4. What graphs and graphics best convey information and data to the viewer?
5. What is the order, or flow, of information?

Create

You will each create a draft of an infographic for your project individually in Notability. Work on that now.