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Nuclear Popcorn
Make your instructional 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...
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Demonstrating the Half-Life of a Radioactive Isotope
In this half-life worksheet, students use 100 pennies to simulate radioactive isotopes and half-life. They place the pennies in a box and shake the box. All pennies that turn up tails are removed from the box. They represent the isotopes...
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Get a Half-Life Student Worksheet
Young scientists use a worksheet to help them perform a lab on the decay of a radioactive element. The worksheet serves as both a task guide and a lab sheet for pairs of learners. This activity requires a calculator and has excellent...
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M&M Science and Math
A series of math and science activities feature M&M's® as manipulatives to help kids work through equations. The resource includes exercises on finding averages, percent of compositions, moles in chemical reactions, genotypes and...
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Lizard Lab
For this detailed and comprehensive multi-day activity, budding evolutionary biologists use real data from lizard populations in the Canary Islands to examine evolution and natural selection.
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Radiation Lab
In this radiation worksheet, learners use a data table to determine what kind of radiation is being emitted by unknown sources. This worksheet has 3 problems to solve.
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Radiation vs. Shielding
In this radiation learning exercise, students compare the effects of shielding on radiation on known isotopes. This learning exercise has 2 problems to solve.
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DNA Fingerprinting Simulation
In this DNA fingerprinting simulation instructional activity, students perform an activity that represents using a gel electrophoresis. Students decide who commits a crime in a forensics style lab.
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Simulation of Irradiation
In this irradiation worksheet, learners simulate the effects of irradiation on bacteria growth by using UV light. Then students complete 6 short answer questions.
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Chemistry Midterm Topic Review
In this chemistry review worksheet, students answer and solve 95 questions about chemical reactions, hydrocarbons, functional groups, moles, acids and bases and solutions.