Lesson Plan
University of South Florida

Fcat: Get a Half Life!: Teacher Notes

For Teachers 9th - 10th
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.
Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Radiation / Half Life

For Teachers 9th - 10th
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....
eBook
Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: Half a Life Time Ago by Elizabeth Gaskell

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the full text of the novel Half a Life-Time Ago by Elizabeth Gaskell, an English novelist, biographer, and short story writer.
Lesson Plan
Utah Education Network

Uen: Isotopic Dating Activity

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students will do research relating half-life and the age of radioactive substances on interesting topics.
Lesson Plan
Utah Education Network

Uen: Radioactive Review

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This lesson consists of half-life problems for the students to work out.
Activity
Exploratorium

Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Radioactive Decay Model

For Students 9th - 10th
A simple experiment where pennies are thrown, then half are removed, to simulate how radioactive decay works.
Handout
Greek Gods

Greek Gods: Demigods & Spirits: Nereus, a Marine Deity

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
Handout
Physics4kids

Physics4 Kids: Modern Physics: Releasing Particles

For Students 6th - 8th
Explains basic information about radioactivity. Learn about half-life through text and video.
Website
Ducksters

Ducksters: Chemistry for Kids: Radioactivity and Radiation

For Students 1st - 9th
Kids learn about the science of radioactivity and radiation in chemistry including radioactive decay, types, measurements, half-life, and the dangers.
Lesson Plan
Intel Corporation

Intel: Music of the Western Expansion

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
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...
Activity
University of Saskatchewan (Canada)

University of Saskatchewan: Modeling Exponential Decay Using Logarithms

For Students 9th - 10th
Radioactive decay is a real-life example of exponential decay. This site solves an example problem by using the exponential decay equation.
Article
How Stuff Works

How Stuff Works: How Evolution Works

For Students 9th - 10th
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.

Other popular searches