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Mocomi & Anibrain Digital Technologies

Mocomi: Carbon Dating

For Students 9th - 10th
How do we know how old a fossil is? We use carbon, as every living being has carbon. Carbon dating, also known as radiocarbon dating, is a method of estimating the age of carbon-bearing materials up to 60,000 years old. Scroll through to...
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University of Colorado

University of Colorado: Ph Et Interactive Simulations: Radioactive Dating Game

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about different types of radiometric dating, such as carbon dating. Understand how decay and half-life work to enable radiometric dating. Play a game that tests your ability to match the percentage of the dating element that...
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University of Colorado

University of Colorado: Ph Et Interactive Simulations: Radioactive Dating Game

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about different types of radiometric dating, such as carbon dating. Understand how decay and half life work to enable radiometric dating. Play a game that tests your ability to match the percentage of the dating element that...
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California State University

California State University Virtual Courseware Project: Radiocarbon Dating

For Students 9th - 10th
Use interactive graphs and other diagrams to answer questions about carbon dating.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Mit: Inventor of the Week: Willard Libby Carbon Dating

For Students 6th - 8th
Use this site to learn about radiocarbon dating and the scientist who discovered it, Willard Libby (1908-1980 CE).
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University of Colorado

University of Colorado: Ph Et Interactive Simulations: Radioactive Dating Game

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore various types of radiometric dating.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs How to Get a Date for Episode

For Teachers 9th - 10th
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...
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PBS

The Dating Game: Radiocarbon Dating

For Students 9th - 10th
Part of PBS-NOVA Online. An excellent explanation of how radiocarbon dating is done and why it works. Great material for earth science, history or biology classes.
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Other

Radiocarbon Web Info: What Is Radiocarbon Dating?

For Students 9th - 10th
This article explains radiocarbon dating and its development.
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University of Nebraska

Carbon 14 Dating Calendar

For Students 9th - 10th
Provides a Carbon 14 Dating Calculator to compute the percent of Carbon 14 remaining after a given number of years. Also calculates how many years have elapsed from how much Carbon 14 remains.
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Australian Museum

Australian Museum: Radioactive Dating

For Students 9th - 10th
This article explains what radioactive dating is and describes the different techniques used, what they are used for, and the limitations of each.
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Science Struck

Science Struck: Well Known Uses of Carbon

For Students 9th - 10th
Discover the wide variety of ways we use carbon as well as its three allotropes that are found in the natural world - graphite, diamonds, and amorphous carbon.
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Other

Aus E Tute: Carbon 14 Dating Tutorial

For Students 9th - 10th
Site provides an on-line tutorial of Carbon 14 dating. Outlines the production of Carbon-14, radiocarbon dating, materials that can be Dated using the Carbon-14 Method and a brief history of Carbon-14 Dating Methods.
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: N q.a.3 and S id.a: Accuracy of Carbon 14 Dating I

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This task examines, from a mathematical and statistical point of view, how scientists measure the age of organic materials by measuring the ratio of Carbon 14 to Carbon 12. The focus here is on the statistical nature of such dating....
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: The Dating Game: Radioactive Carbon

For Students 9th - 10th
In this media-rich essay from the NOVA: "Mystery of the First Americans" Web site, learn about the atomic structure of radioactive carbon and how it can be used to determine the age of organic remains, such as bones and teeth.
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University of North Carolina

University of North Carolina: Radiometric Dating

For Students 9th - 10th
A huge site from The University of North Carolina regarding radiometric dating, how it works, inaccurate methods, Carbon-14 dating, and lots more.
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: F Le Carbon 14 Dating

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
The task requires the student to use logarithms to solve an exponential equation in the realistic context of carbon dating. Aligns with F-LE.A.4.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Physical Science: Half Life and Radioactive Dating

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Explains radioactive dating, how it works, and how carbon-14 is used to date the remains of living things.
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Wikimedia

Wikipedia: Carbon

For Students 9th - 10th
This article from Wikipedia contains great information on the element carbon. Links are provided throughout the article to provided additional information. The topics include: Notable Characteristics, Applications, History, Allotropes,...
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Mcat: Physical Processes: Atomic Nucleus: Decay Graphs and Half Lives Article

For Students 9th - 10th
Explains how scientists can tell when radiation has been leaked, how to read a decay graph, what we mean by a half-life, and what carbon dating is.
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Other

Carbon 14 Dating

For Students 9th - 10th
Seven pages all about Carbon 14 Dating. Information on half-life, Carbon 14 used to date specimens and artifacts, limitations, charts and graphs. Michael E. Brown Ph.D. contests that the limitations of Carbon 14 dating support the theory...
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: N q.a.3 and F le.a.4: Accuracy of Carbon 14 Dating Ii

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This task is a refinement of "Carbon 14 dating" which focuses on accuracy. Aligns with N-Q.A.3 and F-LE.A.4.
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Science Struck

Science Struck: How Does Carbon 14 Dating Work?

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about carbon-14 dating and how it works.
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Science Struck

Science Struck: Carbon Uses in Everyday Life

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the properties and uses of the element carbon.

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