Energy and Place Project
This was a unique and interesting project. It combined Chemistry and Humanities, to better explore a very complicated topic: Energy production, consumption, and environmental impacts. We explored the following questions.
How does energy production and consumption impact place?
How does your sense of place, environmental ethic and understanding of our energy needs
influence your perception and decisions relating to energy production and consumption?
Below are the relevant documents on this project, and my reflection.
How does energy production and consumption impact place?
How does your sense of place, environmental ethic and understanding of our energy needs
influence your perception and decisions relating to energy production and consumption?
Below are the relevant documents on this project, and my reflection.
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Infographic and Paper
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My infographic focused on the amount of radiation in things that we are often exposed to, as compared to the amount of radiation that is required to cause harm to a human. It was brought about by my lab’s focus on radiation shielding, and what is and is not safe. Going into this project, I had some major misconceptions about radiation. These misconceptions about the danger of radiation, I realized, came from my conversations with adults and the media that I consumed. This meant that my misconceptions were not just mine, but other peoples’. Given this awareness, I decided that the best purpose for my infographic would be to address these ideas.
From my actual experiment, and the background research conducted on it, I learned a lot about the cooperative nature of science. My project required that I be in almost-constant communication with my teammates on the project. There were some issues there. However, we overcame those challenges to create the paper you see below. From this, I learned that when I’m working on a lab, it’s important to find people who are passionate about the topic, and are able to inspire that passion in others. My group for this wasn’t perfect, but it was pretty good. |
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