The Atomic Scientists
In this lesson from Scientists for Global Responsibility, learners explore Physics and Citizenship.
Bohr, Chadwick, Oppenheimer, Szilard, Fermi, Meitner, Einstein -
- What did the people who made possible the first atomic bomb want to happen?
- Scientists in the first half of the 20th Century were making strides in theory and experimentation to understand atoms:
- How are atoms structured?
- What forces hold atoms together?
- Can the atom be split?
- And what happens if we do?
- By the 1940s, the answers were a matter of life and death.
- In this lesson, learners will study the scientists, what they discovered, and what they wanted to happen with the atom bomb and what they did for peace.
- Covers the development of the model of the atom (common content with chemistry)
- The Atomic Scientists is a lesson from Teach Peace secondary, a pack of 50 lessons from the Peace Education Network.
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