Given illustrations, diagrams, or descriptions, students will identify alpha, beta, or gamma radiation.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] This lesson explains the types of radioactive decay and how to write nuclear equations. Includes simulations for learning about alpha and beta particle decay.

From The Mad Scientist Network web site. Using a question and answer format, this page discusses three types of nuclear reactions - spontaneous decay reactions, nuclear fision reactions, and nuclear fusion reactions. Each reaction type...

Take an interactive quiz over radioactivity. After completing the quiz, check your score, and then revisit any incorrect question for further review.

Site provides the ABC's of nuclear science including radioactivity and gamma decay to fission and comic rays.

This article presents illustrations and a general discussion about radiation.

This site has lesson plans and activities related to radiation. Activities include measuring radiation with a Geiger counter and observing radiation 'footprints' in a cloud chamber.

Video explaining the process, risks, and benefits of radioactivity. [4:16] Followed by a short quiz and a list of additional resources to explore.

A brief examination of the Chart of the Nuclides and unstable nuclei.

Overview of radioactivity, the process in which particles are emitted from nuclei as a result of nuclear instability.

Explains what is meant by the half-life of a radioactive element and how it is calculated.

Click to read different historical documents in chemistry related to the history of the study and discovery of radioactivity.

Learn about nuclear energy as you listen to the audio book describing nuclear chemistry. View maps, examples, graphs, and pictures describing everything from electrons to beta emissions and more.

A very readable account of the discovery of radioactivity and its properties.

This online textbook chapter provides learners with advanced-level material on acids and bases.