Post No. 5 – Open sesame? Wait, wut?

To nuke or not to nuke, I mean, to open or not to open?

This is the ultimate question for your second to the last post.

Read the following scenario and base your post no. 5 on it:

Fast forward. You had just been elected the president of the country. Unfortunately, the entire country is suffering from power crisis since global prices of oil plummeted to a level no one can ever imagine. The only solution that can resolve the power crisis is opening the Bataan Nuclear Power Plant (BNPP) that had been mothballed already for the past 28 years. Knowing that BNPP is just an 8-minute ride from the 7 km-long Morong Beach which is the nesting place of the endangered marine turtles, will you still allow the opening of the BNPP despite of this fact? Justify your answer. Be sure to discuss the pros and cons of opening the BNPP to ALL stakeholders.

Deadline of Posting: March 9, 2012 (Friday)

Evaluation Assignments:

• Lauan Group 1 will comment on Almaciga Group 1
• Lauan Group 2 will comment on Almaciga Group 2
• Lauan Group 3 will comment on Almaciga Group 3
• Lauan Group 4 will comment on Almaciga Group 4
• Almaciga Group 1 will comment on Lauan Group 1
• Almaciga Group 2 will comment on Lauan Group 2
• Almaciga Group 3 will comment on Lauan Group 3
• Almaciga Group 4 will comment on Lauan Group 4

Deadline of Evaluating: March 13, 2012 (Tuesday)

Post No. 4 – Nuclear Energy: Using Science Soundly or Unsoundly?

Nuclear power is any nuclear technology designed to extract usable energy from atomic nuclei via controlled nuclear reactions. The most common method in use today is through nuclear fission, though other methods might one day include nuclear fusion and radioactive decay.

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Your fourth post aims to give an empirical scientific background on the advantages and disadvantages of nuclear energy. Both sides of the coin should be presented to enable your readers to think critically and decide for themselves what should be their personal stance about this perplexed issue.

Open your discussion by answering the following guide questions:

• What is nuclear energy?
• What are the advantages of nuclear energy?
• What are the disadvantages of nuclear energy?
• Are you in favor of harnessing energy from nuclear power plants? Why or why not?

Finally, talk about the second site of your field trip – the Bataan Nuclear Power Plant (BNPP).

• What did you expect to learn from the BNPP?
• What did you learn from the BNPP?
• Which part of the power plant is the most interesting for you? Why?

Deadline of Posting: March 2, 2012 (Friday)

Evaluation Assignments:

• Lauan Group 1 will comment on Lauan Group 4
• Lauan Group 2 will comment on Lauan Group 1
• Lauan Group 3 will comment on Lauan Group 2
• Lauan Group 4 will comment on Lauan Group 3
• Almaciga Group 1 will comment on Almaciga Group 4
• Almaciga Group 2 will comment on Almaciga Group 1
• Almaciga Group 3 will comment on Almaciga Group 2
• Almaciga Group 4 will comment on Almaciga Group 3

Deadline of Evaluating: March 5, 2012 (Monday)

Let's get it on!

With last year's success of the Blogging Project that generated more than 2,000 likes in our Facebook page, we are bringing back once again this one-of-a-kind Creative Expansive Output (CEO) of the students of The Learning Tree Child Growth Center!

As part of the global celebration of the International Year of Sustainable Energy for All, we are celebrating our Science and Math Fair week with the theme:

This year's Blogging Project is an out spurt of two quarters of discussing energy and its forms and sources and last year's biodiversity topics. As a culminating activity, the sixth grade science class went to Morong, Bataan last February 3, 2012 to visit the mothballed Bataan Nuclear Power Plant and release marine turtle hatchlings at the Pawikan Conservation Center.

As an assessment of the student's learning, this CEO was given to them as a challenge to effectively express what they have learned in their science class through a collaborative online science journal, or otherwise known as a blog.

So what are we waiting for? Let the blogging begin!

Welcome the Blogging Project 2.0!