Exercise 3: Brainstorming a New Unit

The Nuclear Testing in the Pacific page from Australia contains many links relevant to that subject. It was found by performing a simple Alta Vista search for the phrase Nuclear Testing Pacific, a search that reveals quite a number of sites. Your task, should you decide to accept it, is to generate some lesson ideas which might use these pages as a starting point.

Don't limit yourself to what you find from the Alta Vista search. Feel free to imagine other resources that you might want to arrange for your students to have access to. (E.g., experts via e-mail or i-phone; opinion polls; collaboration with other schools, etc.)

To begin the process of brainstorming, remember the six planning questions that you'll need to draft answers to:

A Matrix for Web-Unit Analysis
	Inputs	Transformations	Outputs
Actions & Resources (Tangible)	What people, documents, data, and other resources will the students have access to?	What actions will the student perform while working with the information?	What will the students produce?
Skills (Intangible)	What skills will the students need to make sense of or acquire the information?	What skills will the students need to transform the information?	What skills will the students need to communicate their work to others?

After exploring some of the sites about nuclear testing, fill in this blank matrix.

Matrix for Pacific Nuclear Testing
	Inputs	Transformations	Outputs
Actions & Resources (Tangible)
Skills (Intangible)

Once you've drafted your ideas within the matrix, we'll discuss it as a group.

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Last updated May 28, 1996 by Bernie Dodge.