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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Half Life

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] In this module, students will explore the radioactive decay process in terms of balanced nuclear equations to discover the concept of half-life.
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Utah Education Network

Uen: Penny Half Life Lab

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students will use pennies to model the half-life of radioactive atoms.
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University of South Florida

Fcat: Get a Half Life!: Teacher Notes

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students use M&M's and a graphing calculator to collect and graph data. This activity helps them to understand exponential functions and the concept of half-life.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Mcat: Physical Processes: Atomic Nucleus: Decay Graphs and Half Lives Article

For Students 9th - 10th
Explains how scientists can tell when radiation has been leaked, how to read a decay graph, what we mean by a half-life, and what carbon dating is.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Physical Science: Radioactive Half Life

For Students 7th - 9th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] The half-life of a radioisotope, rates of radioactive decay and variation in half-lives in different radioisotopes.
Interactive
Physics Aviary

Physics Aviary: Half Life Lab

For Students 9th - 10th
This lab is designed to allow students to look at the amount of radiation that is detected at different times from a radioactive source with a very short half-life. This video will help with the lab:...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Radiation / Half Life

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The students will evaluate their personal radiation dose. They will develop an understanding of the term radiation and how it relates to everyday life. The will simulate how radioactive material decays and apply the term half-life....
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Half Life Lab

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This activity explains how students use a CBL2 and TI-83 or TI-84 calculator to collect and calculate the half-life of a barium isotope. Students can use an isogenerator to milk out a meta stable isotope of Barium with a short half-life....
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Other

Cal State: Half Life a Useful Concept

For Students 9th - 10th
A visual description of the concept of half life. Complete with an interactive graph.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: A Matter of Half Life and Death

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson introduces students to the topic of exponential decay and half-life. The lesson is built around Cesium-137, a radioactive isotope, and it's declining radioactivity over the course...
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Radioactive Half Life

For Students 10th - 12th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Explains radioactive half-life and radioactive dating, and demonstrates how to solve problems with each.
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Physics Aviary

Physics Aviary: Practice Problems: Half Life From Graph

For Students 9th - 10th
Determine the half-life of an isotope based on the graph of the amount of the isotope left as a function of time.
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Physics Aviary

Physics Aviary: Practice Problems: Half Life From Data

For Students 9th - 10th
Determine the half-life of an isotope based on the activity data of the isotope as a function of time.
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Physics Aviary

Physics Aviary: Practice Problems: Decay Constant and Half Life From Table

For Students 9th - 10th
Determine the decay constant and half-life of an isotope based on the activity data of the isotope as a function of time.
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Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement (SMILE)

Smile: Radioactive Decay:half Life

For Teachers 9th - 10th
An experiment that will help students in determining the half-life of a radioactive element.
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Science Struck

Science Struck: Half Life in Nuclear Chemistry

For Students 9th - 10th
Explains what is meant by the half-life of a radioactive element and how it is calculated.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Physical Science: Half Life and Radioactive Dating

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Explains radioactive dating, how it works, and how carbon-14 is used to date the remains of living things.
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Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: Half a Life Time Ago by Elizabeth Gaskell

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the full text of the novel Half a Life-Time Ago by Elizabeth Gaskell, an English novelist, biographer, and short story writer.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Discovering Algebra: Decreasing Exponential Model & Half Life

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students will explore exponential equations that model real-world decay data.
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University of Colorado

University of Colorado: Ph Et Interactive Simulations: Alpha Decay

For Students 9th - 10th
Watch alpha particles escape from a polonium nucleus, causing radioactive alpha decay. See how random decay times relate to the half life. Java required.
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University of Colorado

University of Colorado: Ph Et Interactive Simulations: Radioactive Dating Game

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about different types of radiometric dating, such as carbon dating. Understand how decay and half life work to enable radiometric dating. Play a game that tests your ability to match the percentage of the dating element that...
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Ap Physics I: Appendices: Atomic Masses

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a chart of the elements including the atomic mass, atomic number, symbol, half-life, and more.
eBook
Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: The Half Brothers by Elizabeth Gaskell

For Students 9th - 10th
Read the full text of the short story "The Half-Brothers" by Elizabeth Gaskell about a young teen and his awkward older half-brother who lost their mother early in life.
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: F Bf 1,000 Is Half of 2,000

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This task is about an online mathematics organization that is trying, over a four-year period, to generate 2,000 math problems that cover all grades. This real-life modeling task could serve as a summative exercise that draws on many...

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