University of South Florida
Fcat: Get a Half Life!: Teacher Notes
Learners use M&M's and a graphing calculator to collect and graph data. This activity helps them to understand exponential functions and the concept of half-life.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Radiation / Half Life
The learners will evaluate their personal radiation dose. They will develop an understanding of the term radiation and how it relates to everyday life. The will simulate how radioactive material decays and apply the term half-life....
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: Half a Life Time Ago by Elizabeth Gaskell
This is the full text of the novel Half a Life-Time Ago by Elizabeth Gaskell, an English novelist, biographer, and short story writer.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Isotopic Dating Activity
Students will do research relating half-life and the age of radioactive substances on interesting topics.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Radioactive Review
This lesson consists of half-life problems for the students to work out.
Exploratorium
Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Radioactive Decay Model
A simple experiment where pennies are thrown, then half are removed, to simulate how radioactive decay works.
Greek Gods
Greek Gods: Demigods & Spirits: Nereus, a Marine Deity
Learn about Nereus, a truthful and good-natured marine deity, who went from being half fish and half man to fully human and was father to 50 beautiful mermaids, the Nereids.
Physics4kids
Physics4 Kids: Modern Physics: Releasing Particles
Explains basic information about radioactivity. Learn about half-life through text and video.
Ducksters
Ducksters: Chemistry for Kids: Radioactivity and Radiation
Kids learn about the science of radioactivity and radiation in chemistry including radioactive decay, types, measurements, half-life, and the dangers.
Intel Corporation
Intel: Music of the Western Expansion
What was life like for a western pioneer? Learners take a journey through westward expansion using music to understand the experience of the pioneers. As they listen to lyrics and analyze the different types of music that was being sung...
University of Saskatchewan (Canada)
University of Saskatchewan: Modeling Exponential Decay Using Logarithms
Radioactive decay is a real-life example of exponential decay. This site solves an example problem by using the exponential decay equation.
How Stuff Works
How Stuff Works: How Evolution Works
Bacteria reproduce asexually. This means that, when a bacteria cell splits, both halves of the split are identical -- they contain exactly the same DNA. The offspring is a clone of the parent.
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