Education&Communication
The use of new technologies always requires people to have an appropriate level of knowledge and education. Our project concerns the modification of living organisms, their introduction into the body, as well as protection from radiation. It's hard not to agree that such things can cause disapproval, distrust, and negative emotions in people that are not knowledgeable about the subject. Therefore, it is important to engage in education, especially if we are talking about future specialists. Therefore, we decided to hold appropriate lectures for schoolchildren and students.
For secondary school students, we decided to limit ourselves to a short story about cloning methods and what biobricks are
We have prepared the following lecture program for students:
You can also read reviews of our lectures below:
“It can be seen that the lecturers are well versed in the topic and have experience in this field. Complex topics are told in simple language. Impressive!”
“Favorite topic from the new side. Now I want to know everything about cloning!!!”
“The lectures are very interesting, useful and relevant for me. Thanks for the great pitch! Everything was very clear and accessible, despite the abundance of new information.”
And also Alyona Smirnova, a member of the MEPhI team, works at the biological quantorium (the center of additional education for schoolchildren) of the city of Obninsk. Inspired by our project, she created her own course in radiobiology. The course will be taught until the end of 2021, but it has already started now.
Course plan:
- Fundamentals of radiobiology. Types of radioactive decay.
- Fundamentals of radiobiology. Interaction is welcome. radiation with matter.
- Radiation dose and its units of measurement.
- Devices and means for detecting and measuring ionizing radiation.
- Biological effect of ionizing radiation.
- Fundamentals of agricultural radioecology. Migration of radionuclides.
- Animal husbandry in conditions of radioactive contamination. The use of radionuclides and radiation biotechnology in animal husbandry and veterinary medicine.
- Radiation sickness. The effect of small and large doses of ionizing radiation.
- Radiotherapy (radiation therapy).
Statistics:
Here we want to show you the results of our lecture works with the students. In addition to presenting the lectures directly, we communicated with our listeners and asked them questions before and after the lectures.
We held four lectures with students. You can view the topics of these lectures, materials, and questions that we asked at the links above.
Our main audience was 1st-year students. Now we provide you with a report on our work and how useful our lectures were.
Below you will see four histograms that display the number of points received for answering questions before and after lectures.
- Ionizing radiation, physical bases
- Fundamentals of the biological action of radiation. Influence on cells, tissues, and the human body as a whole (Lecture in 2 parts)
- Methods of protection against ionizing radiation
For the first part:
And for the second part:
And also we have prepared the top 3 most difficult questions from those that we voiced at the lecture. The least number of people answered these questions correctly
- “What is not a source of ionizing radiation?”
- “With general acute irradiation of the body in doses of 10-20 Gy develops…”
- “What does the dose of gamma radiation depend on?”
Do you know the right answers for them?
Anyway, according to the histograms you can see that our lectures were really informative and effective!