The past month, Grade 10 students have been busy learning about radiation – its uses in society from surprising things such as checking the thickness of paper and even in smoke alarms, to the more widely known uses in nuclear power plants and as nuclear weapons.

They staged a debate about nuclear power and nuclear weapons using MS teams as a platform for debating online.

At the end of the unit, students were exposed to poems written about the Chernobyl disaster and were then asked to develop their own peace symbol and write their own poem in remembrance for those that lost their lives in the atomic bombings on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

text: SAB