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Location:
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Date:
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Sunday, Feb.14 |
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Time:
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12:45-4:30
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Price:
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Member: $35.00
Nonmember: $60.00
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Sponsor:
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Committee on Physics in High Schools
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Co-Sponsor(s):
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None
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Leader(s):
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Dan Crowe, dan.crowe@loudoun.k12.va.us
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Co-Leader(s):
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Monica Plisch
Heide Doss
Cathy Mader
Betsy Beise
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Description
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Nuclear science meets CSI in this unit on nuclear forensics, intended for high school physics, chemistry or forensics courses. A set of five lessons uses nuclear forensics scenarios to introduce nuclear science in a context that the students might find interesting. These lessons, which are flexible and designed to take up to ten hours of class time, include background on nuclear science and case studies in which students analyze data from interdicted nuclear material. The workshop includes hands-on activities and mathematical modeling designed to develop students' critical thinking skills. The laboratory component includes detection of radiation from common materials and other sources, shielding experiments and more. Participants will be given both the student packets and teacher packets for the lessons.
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