Teachers & Students
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Conference of Radiation Control Program Directors, Inc.

[Posted 03/27/03]

State radiation control programs receive many requests for information suitable for school children.  These requests come in all forms: children sending in requests for information, teachers asking for a “guest speaker” for a science lesson, administrators asking for a representative for career day, parents looking for a spiffy demo for a science project.  While we all want to do a good job fulfilling these requests, it is difficult to pull together accurate information that is interesting and engaging for children.  The problem is compounded since there are very different learning styles and information needs for each age group.

The web addresses listed provide accurate information in a manner that is conducive to children’s needs.  There are additional support materials provided that can be used to help the teachers learn, too.  The Health Physics Society has been reviewing textbooks commonly used in schools and has found a number of factual errors.  The fact sheets at these web addresses may be useful in correcting misperceptions on the part of the teachers as well as the students.

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Teacher and Student Links

Agency/Page Title

Web Address

Keyword
Facts for Media during radiological emergency

http://www.epa.gov/radiation/rert/radfacts.htm

 Emergency Response, Definitions, Risk
People and Discoveries in Radiation

http://www.epa.gov/radiation/students/people.html

Marie Curie, Henri Becquerel,  Otto Hahn, Wilhem Conrad Roentgen, Enrico Fermi

History

      http://www.epa.gov/radiation/students/history.html

 Discoveries, Dangers, Need for Radiation Protection
What is Radiation

http://www.epa.gov/radiation/students/what.html

 Radiation Terms, Sources, Concepts: Time, Distance, Shielding
Symbols

 http://www.epa.gov/radiation/students/symbols.html

 Symbols, Tri-foil, Fallout shelter,
A-bomb survivors

  http://whyfiles.org/020radiation/hiroshima1.html

A-Bomb survivor studies, health effects, projected lifetime risk for solid cancer
Radiation risk

  http://whyfiles.org/020radiation/hiroshima2.html

A-bomb survivor studies, cancer risk, shape of dose-response curve, threshold
Chernobyl

http://www.whyfiles.org/020radiation/chern1.html

 Chernobyl, chronic, low-dose, long-term health effects
Radiation and Life

 http://www.uic.com.au/ral.htm

Background, atom, energy spectrum, alpha, beta, gamma, measurement (units), health effects, radiation protection
Engineer Girl!

  http://www.engineergirl.org

 Engineering careers, science experiments
Great Engineering Achievements

http://www.greatachievements.org

 Radio and TV, Imaging, Health Technologies
FEMA for kids

                     http://www.fema.gov/kids

 Games, Quizzes, Disaster connection to kids
Lesson plans on particle physics

http://particleadventure.org/

  
Movies on science and technology issues

                      http://www.brainpop.com

  
Periodic table – history and origin

 http://www.colorado.edu/physics/2000/periodic_ table/index.html

 UV Index, Ozone, Tanning, Sun

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