Nuclear Power Generation

Positives

• This video provides complex information in easy-to-understand terms.
• Diagrams, photographs, and drawings illustrate the concepts in the video.
• There is a full transcript with a highlight feature so students can easily follow along with the speaker.

Additional Prerequisites

• You can assign the video and quiz if you sign in and connect it to your online classroom.
• Students should already be familiar with the parts and structure of an atom, and the periodic table.
• There are standards for AP Environmental Science classes listed.
  

Differentiation

• Cross-curricular connections could be made with history classes by researching radioactive waste disposal in the oceans. Students could compare primary documents with more recent secondary documents to see how people's opinions change when they learn new things. 
• Chemistry or physical science classes could use this video as a discussion starter on nuclear fission or isotopes. Students could work in groups to develop an equation that shows what happens when a neutron is fired at uranium-235. Students could present their equations to the class and explain how they work. 
• Other resources on this topic include this video on processing uranium into nuclear fuel, this podcast episode on the feasibility of using nuclear power, and this Vox video on why nuclear power plants are shutting down.