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Objectives and Goals

• We will correctly identify the advantages and disadvantages of different types of radiations.
• We will explore a career in the field of electromagnetic radiation.
• We will connect the length of a wavelength to its potential energy and harm.

Essential Questions

• How dangerous are electromagnetic waves to humans?
• Should we be concerned with the new technological advances of today?

Lesson Format

This lesson is designed to take approximately 4 days (140 minutes) and can be completed entirely online. The format will be either completed with your instructor or on your own. For this lesson, you’ll participate in group work activities through discussion boards, do a Gallery Walk and independent work through reading, screencasting, and note taking, and an end-of-lesson summary. 

This week, you will complete the following course work:

• Activity 1: C.E.R.T.I.Fy Your Thinking (appx. 20 minutes)
• Initial post mm/dd/yyyy (appx. 15 minutes)
• Peer responses due mm/dd/yyyy (appx. 5 minutes)
• Activity 2: Electromagnetic Radiation Superhero (appx. 40 minutes)
• Create superhero due mm/dd/yyyy (appx. 30 minutes)
• Screencast due mm/dd/yyyy (appx. 5-10 minutes)
• Activity 3: Notes (appx. 40 minutes)
• Superhero Gallery Walk & ER Note Collection (appx. 30 minutes)
• Article and ER Note collection (appx. 10 minutes)
• ER Notes due mm/dd/yyyy

• Activity 4: Career-Focused Video (appx. 20 minutes)  
• Interview Reflection due mm/dd/yyyy (appx. 20 minutes)
• Activity 5: Self-Assessment (appx. 25 minutes)  
• Fist to Five and essay question due mm/dd/yyyy

Total Estimated Time: 2 hours 20 minutes

Procedure

• All of the activities are designed to be completed within Canvas.