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How Do We Know the Half Life of Uranium and Can You Collect Gold Once It's Dissolved in Acid? Instructional VideoHow Do We Know the Half Life of Uranium and Can You Collect Gold Once It's Dissolved in Acid? Instructional Video
Publisher
American Chemical Society
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Grade
9th - Higher Ed
Subjects
Science
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Resource Type
Instructional Videos
Media Length
3:05
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Direct Instruction
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Year
2018
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How Do We Know the Half Life of Uranium and Can You Collect Gold Once It's Dissolved in Acid?

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Participate in a little chemistry Q and A! Part of a larger series on reactions, an informative lesson takes questions from viewers and crafts responses. The video explains how we arrive at an accurate half-life of a radioactive element and how to retrieve gold dissolved in acid using electrolysis.

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CCSS: Adaptable

Concepts

uranium, gold, half lives, acids

Additional Tags

science

Instructional Ideas

  • Have pupils construct questions to submit to the American Chemical Society for possible future videos
  • View the two videos the questions originated from prior to watching the lesson

Classroom Considerations

  • Assumes viewers have experience with dissolving gold in acid
  • This video is hosted on YouTube

Pros

  • Images provide important visual reinforcement of the content
  • Answering actual viewers questions adds relevance to the entire series

Cons

  • None

Common Core

SL.11-12.2 L.9-10.2.a RST.9-10.7 RST.11-12.7

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