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1. Objective (READ)

1. Objective (READ) SWBAT describe the effects of the Soviet Union’s policies on the environment. 2. Question of the Day. (TURN OBJECTIVE INTO A QUESTION) 3. Warm-up (ANSWER) 1. How would you improve the lasting effects of the Chernobyl disaster?

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  1. 1. Objective (READ) SWBAT describe the effects of the Soviet Union’s policies on the environment. 2. Question of the Day. (TURN OBJECTIVE INTO A QUESTION) 3. Warm-up (ANSWER) 1. How would you improve the lasting effects of the Chernobyl disaster? 2. CLASSROOM PROCEDURES REVIEW – What is the most important benefit of completing the warm-up activity?

  2. Activity  WARM-UP

  3. Activity  TEACHER INSTRUCTION (TI)

  4. Activity  LAPTOPS

  5. Activity  GROUPS

  6. Table of Contents 1. Go to the next fresh page. 2. Write the title “HEI”

  7. Laptop Directions 1. Open the power point called “Chernobyl -09 L.” • Go to S:) Student – Student Read Only – Orso folder – Chernobyl – 09 L. 2. Use it to complete the Facebook Photo Album Assignment (1-10).

  8. Chernobyl - Pictures READ ONLY

  9. Photo Album Assignment • Pretend you visited the Chernobyl nuclear power plant and took the following pictures (1-6) • Pretend you are creating a Facebook photo album of each picture. Directions 1. Number in your notebook 1-10. 2. Write a caption that you would put in your Facebook photo album for pictures 1-6.

  10. READ ONLY 1. This is an aerial photo of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant taken two or three days after the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear plant explosion which spread clouds of radioactive dust across the western part of the Soviet Union and Europe.

  11. 2. The power station, which rendered the town uninhabitable for centuries, looms on the horizon, two-and-half kilometers away. READ ONLY

  12. 3. Nature has been reclaiming the abandoned town. Wild boars roam the streets at night. Birch trees have been growing at random, even inside some apartment blocks . READ ONLY

  13. 4. A cemetery of radioactive vehicles is seen near the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in this Nov.10, 2000 nuclear accident at Chernobyl. READ ONLY

  14. 5. Then five-year-old Alec Zhloba, suffering from leukemia, looks on in a children cancer unit at a hospital in Gomel, Belarus, in this March 19, 1996 file photo. Some 70 percent of the fallout from the 1986 Chernobyl disaster fell on Belarus. Health Effects READ ONLY

  15. Effects on Nature 6. Ukrainian biology professor Vyacheslav Konovalov demonstrates a foal horse mutant in his laboratory in Zhytomyr, 120 km west of Kiev, Ukraine on March 11, 1996. He collected plant and animal mutants and human embryos and planned to create a warning museum. READ ONLY

  16. Pictures 7-10 • Open the Word document called “Chernobyl Pictures Website.” • Go to the S:) Student – Student Read Only – Orso folder – Chernobyl Pictures Website. • Choose four more pictures from the document. • Briefly sketch each picture and include a caption to complete your fictional facebook album.

  17. DAY 4 - SOLUTIONS Directions: • Write this title in your notebook. • This information will help you with your assessment today.

  18. CAUSE REVIEW - Soviet Union Policies • Industrialization – was done too fast • Modernization – Soviet Union needed infrastructure • Cold War arms race – must develop nuclear power

  19. 1) The Volga –view the video clip on the Volga River http://photography.nationalgeographic.com/photography/enlarge/volga-river-cathedral_pod_image.html

  20. The Volga www.chem.memphis.edu/.../interesting-visits.htm

  21. Pollution of the Volga River • During rapid industrialization, many factories were built along the Volga • Some pollution is trash but most is from chemical factories • The water is harmful to drink, harmful to the fish and causes sickness http://ec.europa.eu/research/star/index_en.cfm?p=36

  22. Image Courtesy of NASA Earth Observatory This is the Volga River. This is the Caspian Sea, notice the brown sludge the Volga is dumping in it. Volga River This is the Volga River Delta.

  23. Pollution of the Volga River • Damming for industrial purposes causes floodinghttp://www.biodets.de/home/Behrends/page1_9.htm

  24. Pollution of the Volga River • Pollution from an oil spillen.rian.ru/russia/20090804/155725996.html

  25. Pollution of the Volga River • Clean-up efforts are underwayhttp://www.wcfcourier.com/news/top_story/image_9d7b0478-cc45-5ddc-b7e2-6c06da9eb974.html

  26. The Shrinking Aral Sea Original Borders • Original borderhttps://lpdaac.usgs.gov/var/ezwebin_site/storage/images/ media/images/data_in_action_images/aral_sea_continues_to_shrink_august_2009_08_28_2009/23711-1-_medium.jpg

  27. The Shrinking Aral Sea • Dust storms make the environment even more harshhttp://www.russiankafe.com/images/aral_sea_dust_storm.jpg

  28. Shrinking Aral Sea Desertification (expansion of deserts to the outer moist regions) of the Aral Sea region led to this…

  29. Shrinking Aral Sea

  30. Shrinking Aral Sea ocho.uwaterloo.ca

  31. Shrinking Aral Seahttp://ec.europa.eu/research/star/index_en.cfm?p=36

  32. Shrinking Aral Seahttp://keralaarticles.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/aral-sea.jpg

  33. Aral Sea Clip Aral Sea Clip Questions: 1. What is being done to fix the problems created by the disappearing Aral Sea? 2. What else do they need to fix?

  34. HEI - Assessment • Divide a piece of official EPA paper into three sections. • Titles for each section: • Chernobyl (p. 368), Volga River (p. 352), Aral Sea (p. 353).

  35. HEI Assessment • Each section must include the following: 1. Picture of the disaster. (10 points) 2. Caption underneath the picture that explains how it happened. (10 points) 3. Explain how you would solve this problem today or at least make it a little better. (10 points) - Hint: Come up with ideas that improve the effects. The effects are the worst part.

  36. HEI Assessment - K • Each section must include the following: 1. Picture of the disaster. (10 points) 2. Caption underneath the picture that explains the following (10 points) : A. How it happened. B. The worst effect that demonstrates how each issue a disaster. 3. Explain how you would solve this problem today or at least make it a little better. You must include and explain at least 2 strategies for each issue. (10 points) - Hint: Come up with ideas that improve the effects. The effects are the worst part.

  37. Your To Do List… 1. Turn in your assessment. 2. Pick up the directions for the Facebook assignment we started on Wednesday. Complete it and get it approved. 3. Check out the Google Earth Tour for Chernobyl and the Aral Sea in the S:) Student – Student Read Only – Orso Folder. HEI Assessment – Part 2 1. Question of the Day Answer the question of the day in your notebook like usual. 2. Paragraph Prompt - Do you think it was worth it for the Soviet Union to rapidly industrialize and rapidly modernize? Explain why or why not. • Bring up the Volga River, Chernobyl, and Aral Sea in your answer. • Put the paragraph on the back of your EPA paper.

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