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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Fusion and Fission

For Students 9th - 10th
Given diagrams, illustrations, symbols, or descriptions, student will distinguish between nuclear fusion and nuclear fission.
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Chiral Publishing

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

For Students 9th - 10th
Listen and learn as you view examples and explanations of nuclear energy. View examples and formulas for binding energy, nuclear fission, chain reaction, and nuclear power.
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Mocomi & Anibrain Digital Technologies

Mocomi: Nuclear Fission and Nuclear Fusion

For Students 8th - 9th
Nuclear fission and nuclear fusion are reactions that convert matter into energy. Learn the difference.
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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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Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Berkeley Lab: Nuclear Energy: Fission/fusion

For Students 9th - 10th
Provides a definition and explanation of fission, the splitting of a heavy nucleus into two roughly equal parts, and fusion, the process where two nuclei combine together to form a larger nucleus.
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MadSci Network

Msn: What Is Required to Initiate a Fusion Reaction?

For Students 6th - 8th
From the Mad Scientist Network web site. Using a question and answer format, this page provides a thorough discussion of fusion reactions. Fusion and fission are compared and contrasted and the mechanisms which must occur to initiate and...
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Ducksters

Ducksters: Physics for Kids: Nuclear Energy and Fission

For Students 1st - 9th
Kids learn about nuclear energy and fission in the science of physics including E=mc2, power plants, uses of nuclear power, and fusion.
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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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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Nuclear Blast Damage

For Students 9th - 10th
This illustrated document from the AMERICAN EXPERIENCE Web site examines the "zones of destruction" caused by nuclear weapons.
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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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MadSci Network

Msn: What Happens in a Nuclear Reaction?

For Students 6th - 8th
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...
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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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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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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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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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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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NASA

Nasa: Exploring Climate Change

For Students 9th - 10th
Test your knowledge of energy and its role in Earth's climate system with these interactive quizzes.
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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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Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Berkeley Lab: Basic Nuclear Science Information

For Students 9th - 10th
Site provides the ABC's of nuclear science including radioactivity and gamma decay to fission and comic rays.
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Other

Review Game Zone: Earth/environmental Science Ncfe Review Part 1

For Students 9th - 10th
Take this 10 multiple choice question quiz on earth and environmental science.
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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.
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: If Superpowers Were Real: Body Mass

For Students 9th - 10th
What if manipulating body mass wasn't just the stuff of fantasies and comics? Is it scientifically possible to manipulate your body mass? In this series, creator and educator Joy Lin tackles superpowers and reveals just how...
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Other

Need: Exploring Nuclear Energy [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
This downloadable article addresses all aspects of nuclear energy. Visual charts make understanding of cycles and concepts easier. Most useful for older students and educators. PDF (requires Adobe Reader).

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