Unit Plan
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.
Activity
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....
Lesson Plan
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....
Handout
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.
Unit Plan
Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Physical Science: Nuclear Chemistry

For Students 9th - 10th
A complete learning module with interactive activities as well as informational text to help students distinguish the characteristics and components of radioactivity.
Interactive
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Physics Simulation: Marie Curie's Classroom

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Study the basics of radioactive decay and the properties of atomic nuclei in Marie Curie's laboratory and classroom. A PDF worksheet and a video tutorial are also available. [3:32]
Handout
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Berkeley Lab: Radioactivity

For Students 9th - 10th
Overview of radioactivity, the process in which particles are emitted from nuclei as a result of nuclear instability.
Website
Idaho State University

Radioactivity in Nature

For Students 9th - 10th
Interesting information including: average annual dosage, radioactivity in space, in the human body, and in the oceans.