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Electricity Unit: Surviving Chernobyl

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Cover of Electricity Unit: Surviving Chernobyl, introducing the thematic electricity unit with a name field
Cover of the electricity inquiry unit
Role-play introduction welcomes Aleksandr Akimov as Chernobyl shift chief and assigns an electricity review
Introduction to the Chernobyl engineer role-play
April 20 lesson introduces life in Pripyat through population, housing, schools, services, and industry data
First reading on life in Pripyat
Pripyat reading continues with transportation and phone data, a city photo, and three comparison questions
Pripyat reading continuation and comparison questions
Virtual Tour Pripyat task includes photo research, electricity-demand questions, and a city-planning sketch
Virtual tour research and city-planning task
Example city-planning map labels a nuclear power plant, train station, apartments, and community facilities
Example map for the Pripyat planning task
April 21 energy-needs lesson introduces electrical loads, watts, kilowatts, and kilowatt-hours for Pripyat
Introduction to estimating Pripyat’s energy needs
Appliance power-rating table supports seven questions on household energy use, city demand, and conservation
Appliance data and energy calculation questions
Phantom-load lesson includes three questions, an appliance-efficiency extension, and a power-line mapping task
Phantom loads and power-line mapping follow-up
April 22 generator lesson introduces a labeled diagram showing magnets, a rotating coil, and slip rings
Introduction to how generators work
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With this resource, your students will engage in an inquiry-based project to learn about the concepts involved in electricity as a new engineer at the nuclear power plant known as Chernobyl, in Pripyat Russia.

This resource includes:

- Detailed information about Pripyat, Russia

- Information about electrical power and how it is used

- Understanding how generators work

- Understanding how nuclear power plants work

- Understanding how electricity works

- Understanding how to measure the flow of electrons in a circuit

- Follow up activities

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A word document with 29 pages.

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