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Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Berkeley Lab: Nuclear Fission Energy

For Students 11th - 12th
Resource explains and illustrates nuclear fission energy.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Cell Division in Prokaryotes and Eukaryotes

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] No matter what the cell, all cells come from preexisting cells through the process of cell division. This module provides an overview of cell division in prokaryotes...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Bacteria Are Everywhere!

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Through this activity, students are introduced to the concept of engineering biological organisms and studying their growth to be able to identify periods of fast and slow growth. Students learn that bacteria are found everywhere,...
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Nuclear Physics

For Students 9th - 10th
Through informational text, interactive activities, and virtual animations students learn about the atomic nucleus, fission, fusion, and radioactive decay.
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Nuclear Physics and Elementary Particles

For Students 9th - 10th
This interactive unit will take students up close and personal with the nuclei of atoms as they discover some of their more intimate process. These will include radioactive decay, nuclear fission, and nuclear fusion.
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Nobel Media AB

The Nobel Prize: Energy From Matter

For Students 9th - 10th
The history of energy being transformed from matter is provided at this site. The information starts at Einstein's formula, then discussions fusion, future energy sources, fission, and nuclear reactors.
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National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine

The National Academies: Emerging Technologies: Advanced Nuclear Fission

For Students 9th - 10th
A brief explanation of the advances being made in the design of nuclear power facilities.
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Encyclopedia of Earth

Encyclopedia of Earth: Plutonium

For Students 9th - 10th
Information about the element, Plutonium, atomic number 94. Covers physical properties, atomic properties, how abundant it is on the Earth, and details about health-related regulations. Discusses reactor- and weapons-grade plutonium, and...
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Other

Nuclear Threat Initiative: Nuclear 101: Nuclear Weapons

For Students 9th - 10th
Interactive tutorial helps with understanding nuclear weapons, the different types, how they are different from conventional weapons, and how many countries have developed them.
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National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine

The National Academies: Our Energy Sources: Nuclear Energy

For Students 9th - 10th
Nuclear fission energy accounts for a large portion of energy production worldwide. New plants will use improved technologies. There is also research underway to explore how to harness the energy produced from nuclear fusion, but this...
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Bio Topics

Bio Topics: Bacterial Reproduction

For Students 9th - 10th
This website provides information about bacterial reproduction and binary fission.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Prokaryote Reproduction and Biotechnology

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn how prokaryotes reproduce by binary fission, and find out the use of E. coli bacteria in molecular biology.
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Oswego City School District

Regents Exam Prep Center: Reproduction: Asexual Reproduction

For Students 9th - 10th
Review of asexual reproduction shows how an offspring is produced from one parent. The methods of asexual reproduction (binary fission, budding, sporulation, and mitosis) are explained briefly accompanied by illustrations.
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PBS

Pbs: Fermi Creates Controlled Nuclear Reaction

For Students 9th - 10th
From the Science Odyssey section of the PBS web site. The work of Enrico Fermi in the development of a sustainable, yet controllable nuclear fission reaction is described. The efforts of Fermi's team at the University of Chicago are...
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MadSci Network

Msn: How Would You Explain the Process?

For Students 9th - 10th
From the Mad Scientist Network web site. Using a question and answer format, this page explains the differences between nuclear fusion and nuclear fission. The details of each process are sketched in simple language.
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Energy for Sustainable Development

Esd Bulgaria: Kids & Energy: Uranium (Nuclear)

For Students 9th - 10th
Nuclear energy is energy in the nucleus of an atom. Atoms are tiny particles that make up every object in the universe. There is enormous energy in the bonds that hold atoms together. Nuclear energy can be used to make electricity. But...
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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.
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Other

World Nuclear Association: Outline History of Nuclear Energy

For Students 9th - 10th
Discusses the nature of the atom, harnessing nuclear fission, conceiving the atomic bomb, the Manhattan Project, and the revival of the nuclear boiler.
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Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Oak Ridge National Laboratory: The Graphite Reactor

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource describes the world's first nuclear reactor and the role which it played in the Manhattan Project. Also discussed are topics such as the goal of plutonium development for nuclear weapons, the goals of the top-secret,...
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Stanford University

Stanford Report: Edward Teller, Father of Hydrogen Bomb

For Students 9th - 10th
Students don't generally learn much about Edward Teller in school. But with the progress in science in the 20th century, maybe they should. Edward Teller was one of the main architects of the hydrogen bomb. This is a great site by...
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BiologyWise

Biology Wise: How Do Bacteria Reproduce

For Students 9th - 10th
Bacteria mainly reproduce asexually but some also use sexual reproduction. Two forms of asexual reproduction in bacteria are described - binary fission and budding, as well as sexual reproduction.
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BiologyWise

Biology Wise: Types of Cell Division

For Students 9th - 10th
Discusses the three methods of cell division - mitosis, meiosis, and binary fission.
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Curated OER

Nuclear Fission

For Students 9th - 10th
A couple of pages of text and graphics describing nuclear chain reactions. The means by which neutrons intiate and sustain a reaction is explained. A second page describes the complications associated with uncontrolled nuclear chain...
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Physics4kids

Physics4 Kids: Modern Physics: Splitting Up

For Students 6th - 8th
Understand the process of splitting of an atom known as fission. This site includes a video that will explore the differences between of fusion vs. fission.

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