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    154 000 die of cancer each year, 33 000 of which are lung cancer. 1 person in every 40 households that live in properties with too high a concentration of radon will die of lung cancer each year. Radon is a risk in some areas of the uk.

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    P3 Radioactive materials

    Guidance AP3.9 Reporting on risk Teaching notes


    This activity is designed to help students to appreciate that risks can be reported in a misleading manner it is difficult to quantify some risks radon is a risk in some areas of the UK It will also help them to learn to work in groups.

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    Activity sheets AP3.9

    Answers to questions
    1 and 2 The answers to these questions arent necessarily right or wrong. It is really a case of evaluating how risk is portrayed in the media. If statement J is selected as an ambiguous statement, in that it could mean twice as many as any other single cancer, or twice as many as all other cancers, it would be useful to quote the following information: 154 000 die of cancer each year, 33 000 of which are lung cancer. The next biggest cancer killer is cancer of the bowel (16 000). 3 One way of quantifying the risk is to say that, on average, 1 person in every 40 households that live in properties with too high a concentration of radon will die of lung cancer each year.

    Part 1
    Students can be given the first page of the activity (the passage and the questions) and told to read the passage twice to themselves. You may want to discuss their first impressions at this stage.

    Part 2
    Give students the table of statements. Put the students into groups and ask them to answer questions 1 and 2.

    Part 3
    Review their answers to questions 1 and 2. Then ask them to do question 3 for homework, if there is no time in the lesson. The question has been left open in the sense that different ways of quantifying the risk could be used. But if you think your students need more direction, discuss the question before they start.

    Further information
    See also a selection of components from Activity 2 Does radon cause childhood cancer? in Radiation in the Environment, published by the Science Enhancement Programme (SEP), www.sep.org.uk

    P3-24

    University of York (UYSEG) and the Nuffield Foundation This page may be copied solely for use in the purchasers school or college

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