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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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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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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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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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PBS

Pbs Teachers: Coming Into America: Dating Artifacts 9 12 [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Investigate new discussions on the presence of humans in North America, and emulate the work of archeologists in dating artifacts at a dig site. Use clay to model how the radioactive isotope of carbon (C14) is used in dating organic...
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Nobel Media AB

The Nobel Prize: The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1960

For Students 9th - 10th
At this site read about Willard Frank Libby (1908-1980 CE), the scientist and mathematician who discovered the carbon dating methods used by archaologists and geologists. This website includes the Nobel Prize "Presentation Speech," as...
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Radioactive Half Life

For Students 10th - 12th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Explains radioactive half-life and radioactive dating, and demonstrates how to solve problems with each.
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Other

Radiocarbon Web Info.

For Students 9th - 10th
"Radiocarbon dating is the technique upon which chronologies of the late Pleistocene and Holocene have been built." Site gives updated information.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Earth Science: Radiometric Dating

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] How scientists can use radioactive decay to find the age of certain materials.
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Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Ornl: Radiocarbon Age Scale vs the "Real" (Calibrated) Years Age Scale

For Students 9th - 10th
Here you can find a chart that shows the comparison between the radiocarbon dating years and real years.
Activity
National Health Museum

Access Excellence: The Discovery of Radioactivity: Dawn of the Nuclear Age

For Students 9th - 10th
This article discusses the historical discoveries of the atom and radioactivity. Includes links to biographies of famous people.
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Curated OER

University of Deleware Library: "The Rose Tattoo"

For Students 9th - 10th
This website has a very brief description of Williams' play "The Rose Tattoo," with a picture of the carbon typesript of the first page, signed and dated by Williams.

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