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Nuclear in K-12 education: Overview of ANS toolkit and reflections from educators
A free webinar today from 3:00 p.m.-4:30 p.m. (EDT) will look at the resources that the American Nuclear Society has developed with Discovery Education and the Department of Energy’s Office of Nuclear Energy to help K-12 educators teach nuclear science and technology.
The webinar will begin with an overview of the resources, followed by reflections and commentary from three educators of various grade levels on their experiences teaching nuclear science and their thoughts about ANS’s instructional materials. The webinar will conclude with a Q&A session with the panelists.
Registration is required for this Nuclear Science Week event.
Item ID: 700375|ISBN: 978-0-89448-098-0
2013
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Description
The Nuclear and Emerging Technologies for Space (NETS) conference serves as a major communications network and forum for professionals and students working in the area of space nuclear technology. NETS 2013 contains 89 full papers with topics of interest including: current space architectures and missions, present enabling capabilities, near-term nuclear technologies, augmenting nuclear capabilities, and innovative and advanced technologies.
