Physics Aviary
Physics Aviary: Radiation Detection Lab
This lab is designed to allow students to look at the amount of radiation that is detected at different distances from a radioactive source.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Penny Half Life Lab
Students will use pennies to model the half-life of radioactive atoms.
Physics Aviary
Physics Aviary: Half Life Lab
This lab is designed to allow students to look at the amount of radiation that is detected at different times from a radioactive source with a very short half-life. This video will help with the lab:...
Physics Aviary
Physics Aviary: Radioactive Shielding Lab
This lab is designed to allow students to look at the factors that affect the amount of radiation that is absorbed by different shielding materials.
Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
Jefferson Lab: Alpha Decay
This site from the Jefferson Lab provides a glossary item with a good illustration.
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Berkeley Lab: The Nucleus Wall Chart
Use this chart to learn everything there is to know regarding a nucleus.
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Berkeley Lab: Misconceptions About Nuclear Science
This site sets the record straight on some common misconceptions about Nuclear Science.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Half Life Lab
This activity explains how students use a CBL2 and TI-83 or TI-84 calculator to collect and calculate the half-life of a barium isotope. Students can use an isogenerator to milk out a meta stable isotope of Barium with a short half-life....
McGraw Hill
Mc Grawl Hill: Dino Dig
A virtual lab allows you to do radiometric dating on dinosaur bones. You'll be using a mass spectrometer and utilizing several steps of the scientific method.
The Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry
Abpi: Safety at Work
Go inside a pharmaceutical company, and take a virtual tour of the safety signs you might find there. After the tour, students do a quick, interactive self-check activity. Printable review sheets may be used as a follow-up activity.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs How to Get a Date for Episode
Students will learn how to estimate time of death by using a lab that models carbon dating and radioactive decay. Activity pages complete with calculator keystroke instructions and screenprints are included in this lesson plan based on...
University of Colorado
University of Colorado: Ph Et Interactive Simulations: Nuclear Fission
Analyze nuclear fission chain reactions and how to prevent them as well as explore ways to control nuclear reactions through these simulations.