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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...
Handout
Florida-Spectrum Environmental Services

Florida Spectrum: Chemical Fact Sheet: Americium

For Students 9th - 10th
Some basic data stressing isotopes and decay information of americium. Thorough.
Unit Plan
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...
Interactive
PBS

Pbs Kids: Tooth Decay

For Students 3rd - 5th
This site from PBS Kids is a fun site where students are part of a survey to determine who has more cavities boys or girls. Up-to-date results are given.
Activity
Other

A1 Collaboration: Wa 89 Hyperon Beam Experiment

For Students 9th - 10th
Report of hyperon beams used for "spectroscopy of charmed strange baryons and exotic multiquark states". These experiment(s) "aims at the better understanding of charm and baryon production and their decay properties governed by an...
Graphic
Curated OER

Lancaster Particle Physics Package: Detector

For Students 9th - 10th
Details on ATLAS, one of the Large Hadron Collider experiments, and on the detection of Higgs decay.
Handout
Forum Romanum

Outlines of Roman History: Review of the Period of the Civil Wars

For Students 9th - 10th
This passage in the 1901 textbook of William Morey reviews the cultural changes in Rome up to the end of the Roman Republic.
Article
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Berkeley Lab: Neutron Activation Analysis

For Students 9th - 10th
A simple explanation of neutron activation of some natural elements in order to create a radioactive nucleus.
Unit Plan
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Berkeley Lab: The Particle Adventure

For Students 9th - 10th
Visit this site for an interactive tour of the atom and all aspects of particle physics. View the animations available with almost every description on this site. A great place for the fundamentals of particles and forces including a...
Interactive
University of Colorado

University of Colorado: Ph Et Interactive Simulations: Nuclear Fission

For Students 9th - 10th
Analyze nuclear fission chain reactions and how to prevent them as well as explore ways to control nuclear reactions through these simulations.
Article
University of Hawai'i

Univ. Of Hawaii: The Effects of Gamma Rays on Mars Rocks

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from the University of Hawaii describes the results of experiments to use gamma rays to sterilize rocks from outer space.
Graphic
Northwestern University

Northwestern University Library: Hogarth and Eighteenth Century Print Culture

For Students 9th - 10th
Browse this large collection of Hogarth's prints to find examples of all of his favorite subjects, including eighteenth-century views of London.
Website
Other

Le Moyne College:elements & Atoms, Indivisible No Longer

For Students 9th - 10th
Click to read different historical documents in chemistry related to the history of the study and discovery of radioactivity.
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Other

Nrc: Unit 2 the Uses of Radiation

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A lesson plan on the uses of radiation in science, industry, and medicine. Gives many household examples of how radiation is used. Students will also learn about the NRC's role in regulating radioactive materials.
Handout
University of Toronto (Canada)

Selected Poems of John Donne

For Students 9th - 10th
Links to 42 poems by the English metaphysical John Donne (1572-1631).
Website
Australian Museum

Australian Museum: Bug Wise

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore the diverse world of invertebrates. Learn what they are, what they do, and how they contribute to our planet. This site offers "BugWise News", a forum, an invertebrate guide, and a wide range of great resources and activities.
Website
NASA

Nasa: Imagine the Universe: X Ray, Gamma Ray Astronomy

For Students 9th - 10th
Frequently asked questions are answered about gamma rays.
Handout
US Geological Survey

U.s. Geological Survey: Geologic Time

For Students 9th - 10th
A discussion of geologic time, how scientists use the concept, and how they have determined its span.
eBook
Chiral Publishing

Chiral Publishing: An Introduction to Chemistry: Nuclear Chemistry: Audio Book

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Solving the Unknown With Algebra

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students will learn and reinforce skills for solving for unknowns, manipulating equations while keeping them in balance, using formulas to solve real-world challenges, and working with proportions, radicals and exponents.
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Math Planet

Math Planet: Algebra 1: Exponential Growth Functions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
An exponential function is a nonlinear function that has the form of y=a*b^x, where a != 0, b > 0. An exponential function with a > 0 and b > 1, like the one above, represents an exponential growth and the graph of an...
Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Algebra: Applications of Exponential Functions

For Students 10th - 12th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] This lesson covers how to use exponential functions in real-life situations. Students watch a video tutorial, explore guided notes and attempt practice problems.
Primary
National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: George Fitzhugh: Sociology for the South: 1854: Religion

For Students 9th - 10th
Two chapters from an apologist for slavery and his claims that slavery is Biblically justified and that church-state separation would lead to moral decay.
Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Transformations of Exponential Functions

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This activity assesses student's knowledge of transformations of exponential functions. Writing exponential functions that model growth and decay are also explored.

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