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#3.9 Aim: What are the pros to using nuclear power? Agenda QOD (10) Lesson: Nuclear power plants (15) Activity: “Nukes are green” (15) Summary HW #20 Nuclear power plants QOD: Where does nuclear energy come from?
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#3.9 Aim: What are the pros to using nuclear power? Agenda QOD (10) Lesson: Nuclear power plants (15) Activity: “Nukes are green” (15) Summary HW #20 #3.9 Aim: What are some pros to using nuclear power?
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#3.9 Aim: What are the pros to using nuclear power? Agenda QOD (10) Lesson: Nuclear power plants (15) Activity: “Nukes are green” (15) Summary HW #20
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#3.9 Aim: What are the pros to using nuclear power? Agenda QOD (10) Lesson: Nuclear power plants (15) Activity: “Nukes are green” (15) Summary HW #20 How do we all use oil in our every-day lives? How do nuclear power plants work?
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#3.9 Aim: What are the pros to using nuclear power? Agenda QOD (10) Lesson: Nuclear power plants (15) Activity: “Nukes are green” (15) Summary HW #20 Nuclear power plants How do we all use oil in our every-day lives? 1. Fission occurs. Moderator – slows down neutrons (so that fission can happen) Control rods – absorb neutrons (to keep the chain-reaction in check)
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#3.9 Aim: What are the pros to using nuclear power? Agenda QOD (10) Lesson: Nuclear power plants (15) Activity: “Nukes are green” (15) Summary HW #20 Nuclear power plants 2. Fission heats up water 3. Hot water boils, creating steam 4. Steam drives the turbines, generating electricity!
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#3.9 Aim: What are the pros to using nuclear power? Agenda QOD (10) Lesson: Nuclear power plants (15) Activity: “Nukes are green” (15) Summary HW #20 Nuclear power plants How do we all use oil in our every-day lives? 5. Cold water from the cooling tower converts steam back to liquid water (it is recycled )
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#3.9 Aim: What are the pros to using nuclear power? Agenda QOD (10) Lesson: Nuclear power plants (15) Activity: “Nukes are green” (15) Summary HW #20 “Nukes are green” We will read the article aloud, together In your notes: make a list of pros of using nuclear power (at least four)
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#3.9 Aim: What are the pros to using nuclear power? Agenda QOD (10) Lesson: Nuclear power plants (15) Activity: “Nukes are green” (15) Summary HW #20 What are some of the pros to using nuclear power?
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#3.9 Aim: What are the pros to using nuclear power? Agenda QOD (10) Lesson: Nuclear power plants (15) Activity: “Nukes are green” (15) Summary HW #20 You will receive a mystery person. Write him/her a letter convincing them that we should use nuclear power…
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