7.3 ASSIGNMENT: Science Blog: Radiation (Due March 8)

ASSIGNMENT: Science Blog: Radiation (10 points)

This Week's Science Blog Topic: For this week's blog entry, watch the video and answer the questions that follow.

• Sometimes when a nucleus decays, it ejects a packet of pure energy known as a gamma ray. Which type of radiation is a gamma ray: electromagnetic or nuclear?

• Your friend worries he’ll get cancer from his microwave oven because he knows it uses radiation. How would you respond to him, knowing what you now do about radiation?

• Why is it hard for us to get a good understanding of the health impact of exposure to low levels of radiation?

Blog Guidelines: 

• Each blog post should be at least one paragraph (3-5 sentences minimum).

• Use complete sentences, proper grammar and punctuation.

• All posts/comments must be respectful.  Vulgarity or rudeness will result in school disciplinary action.

Instructions:

1. Find the Blog Menu block.  Click Add an entry about this course.

You can enter a title for your post and then write your post.  You can insert images or links to help explain your ideas.  When you have finished, click Save Changes.

2. Get link to your course blog

After you save your post, highlight and copy (cntl +c) the url at the top of the blog.  You can also get the link by going to the Blog Menu block and clicking View my entries for this course

2.  To submit in Moodle, Click Add Submission.

3.  Paste your blog URL into the submission box.

4.  Click Save Changes to submit your assignment.

Are you interested in knowing how to read and comment on other students' science blog posts?  Just go to the Blog Menu and choose View all entries for this course.  You can add comments and also read comments others have left on your posts.

After you have completed this assignment, it will be marked as complete with a checkmark after it has been graded by the instructor.