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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Nuclear Chemistry: Radioactive Decay

For Students 9th - 10th
Given illustrations, symbols, or descriptions, students will balance nuclear equations.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Physical Science: Nuclear Fission

For Students 7th - 9th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] What happens during nuclear fission and what a nuclear chain reaction is. How nuclear fission can be used to produce energy and the pros and cons of using that energy.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: The Nuclear Model of the Atom

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] In the following online tutorial students will distinguish between the three main subatomic particles and understand the contributions of J. J. Thomson, Robert...
eBook
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Flex Book Textbooks: Chemistry Second Edition

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] A complete, web-based, multi-media textbook covering a wide variety of Chemistry concepts.
Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Atomic Nuclear

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This StudyCards stack enables students to review the vocabulary associated with atoms and nuclear chemistry.
Article
Boise State University

Boise State: Nuclear Chemistry and Radiation: Types of Radioactive Decay

For Students 9th - 10th
This article with embedded videos provides information about three main types of radioactive decay: alpha, beta, and gamma.
Website
Other

Nuclear Control Institute: The Plutonium Threat

For Students 9th - 10th
This article focuses on the potential hazards associated with the element plutonium.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Physical Science: Nuclear Fusion

For Students 7th - 9th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] What nuclear fusion is and how and where it occurs. Using nuclear fusion to produce energy and its pros and cons.
Website
Shodor Education Foundation

Shodor: Nuclear Chemistry

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides formulas and examples that deal with Nuclear Chemistry. It also has practice problems.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Conservation of Mass and Energy in Nuclear Reactions

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Explores the conservation of mass and energy in nuclear reactions and Einstein's equation.
Interactive
Davidson College

Davidson College: Effective Nuclear Charge

For Students 9th - 10th
Explains what the effective nuclear charge is and how electrons can create a shield between a nucleus and an outer electron. Presents exercises for comparing orbital sizes with effective nuclear charges. Requires Java.
Interactive
Davidson College

Davidson College: Effective Nuclear Charge

For Students 9th - 10th
Explains what Slater rules are and presents exercises for exploring how they are used to estimate the effective nuclear charge and how well they work compared to the Bohr model expression for orbital sizes. Requires Java.
Handout
Nobel Media AB

The Nobel Prize: The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1960

For Students 9th - 10th
At this site read about Willard Frank Libby (1908-1980 CE), the scientist and mathematician who discovered the carbon dating methods used by archaologists and geologists. This website includes the Nobel Prize "Presentation Speech," as...
Website
American Academy of Achievement

Academy of Achievement: Linus C. Pauling, ph.d.

For Students 9th - 10th
A biography of Linus Pauling, winner of Nobel Prizes for Chemistry (1954) and Peace (1962). He spoke out against the use of nuclear weapons when it was an unpopular cause, and spent his life informing the public about a range of health...
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Nuclear Radiation

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] In this module, students will understand how radioactivity involves a change in the nucleus of a radioisotope and calculate the conversion of mass to energy...
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Nuclear Radiation

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Students investigate the characteristics of radioactive emissions, and then complete equations involving radioactive decay when given pertinent information.
Article
Famous Scientists

Famous Scientists: Ernest Rutherford

For Students 9th - 10th
This short biography about Ernest Rutherford explains how he became known as the father of nuclear chemistry and physics.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Chemistry: Neutrons

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Explores the discovery and properties of the neutron and the process of nuclear fission.
eBook
Simon Fraser University

Chem1 Virtual Textbook: Effective Nuclear Charge

For Students 9th - 10th
Acting as a subtopic of the General Chemistry Virtual Textbook's section on Atoms and the Periodic Table, this site discusses the core charge of the atom, otherwise termed the nuclear charge.
Handout
Upper Canada District School Board

Tom Stretton's Chemistry Pages: Radioactivity

For Students 9th - 10th
Deepen your understanding of radioactivity. Find out about the history and chemistry behind the concept.
Website
Nobel Media AB

The Nobel Prize: Kurt Wuthrich Biographical

For Students 9th - 10th
Autobiographical information on Kurt Wuthrich, winner of the 2002 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work in nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Fission and Fusion

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Students will investigate fission and fusion, and discover how they play a part in nuclear chain reactions in fission bombs, nuclear power plants, and radiation in...
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Atomic Theory

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] In this online tutorial students will explain the law of conservation of mass, the law of definite proportions, and the law of multiple proportions. They will also...
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Chemistry: Gold Foil Experiment: Rutherford's Atomic Model

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] This site explains Rutherford's discovery of the nucleus and the planetary model of the atom and the role of gold foil experiment in refining the atomic model. It...

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