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Nuclear Popcorn
Make your activity on radioactive decay pop with this lab exercise. Using popcorn kernels spread over a tabletop, participants pick up all of those that point toward the back of the room, that is, those that represent decayed atoms. As...
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Get a Half-Life!: Student Worksheet
In this math/science worksheet, students will work in pairs to conduct an experiment based on a decay function which is often used to model radioactive decay. Students will shake M & M's in a cup to rub off the M and then record...
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Nuclear Chemistry Homework Problem Set
In this nuclear chemistry worksheet, students evaluate data from concentration experiments on radioactive iodine. They graph the data, determine radioactive decay and half life for the element.
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Worksheet #6, Exponents, Interest, and Radioactive Decay of Isotopes
In this calculus learning exercise, learners sketch graphs of given exponential functions. They compute the principal needed to have a given ending balance when the interest is compounded at varying times. Students use a simple...
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Radioactive Half-Life
In this half-life instructional activity, learners determine how much of the radioactive isotopes will remain after a certain amount of time. This instructional activity has 11 problems to solve.