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Utah Education Network

Uen: Penny Half Life Lab

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students will use pennies to model the half-life of radioactive atoms.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Physical Science: Radioactive Half Life

For Students 7th - 9th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] The half-life of a radioisotope, rates of radioactive decay and variation in half-lives in different radioisotopes.
Interactive
Physics Aviary

Physics Aviary: Half Life Lab

For Students 9th - 10th
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:...
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Half Life Lab

For Teachers 9th - 10th
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....
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: A Matter of Half Life and Death

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson introduces students to the topic of exponential decay and half-life. The lesson is built around Cesium-137, a radioactive isotope, and it's declining radioactivity over the course...
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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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Physics Aviary

Physics Aviary: Practice Problems: Half Life From Graph

For Students 9th - 10th
Determine the half-life of an isotope based on the graph of the amount of the isotope left as a function of time.
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Physics Aviary

Physics Aviary: Practice Problems: Half Life From Data

For Students 9th - 10th
Determine the half-life of an isotope based on the activity data of the isotope as a function of time.
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Physics Aviary

Physics Aviary: Practice Problems: Decay Constant and Half Life From Table

For Students 9th - 10th
Determine the decay constant and half-life of an isotope based on the activity data of the isotope as a function of time.
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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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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Discovering Algebra: Decreasing Exponential Model & Half Life

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students will explore exponential equations that model real-world decay data.
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University of Colorado

University of Colorado: Ph Et Interactive Simulations: Alpha Decay

For Students 9th - 10th
Watch alpha particles escape from a polonium nucleus, causing radioactive alpha decay. See how random decay times relate to the half life. Java required.
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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 Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Ap Physics I: Appendices: Atomic Masses

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a chart of the elements including the atomic mass, atomic number, symbol, half-life, and more.
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BBC

Bbc: Gcse Bitesize: Radioactive Emissions

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson focuses on radioactive emissions including radioactive decay, half-life, using half-life, how to calculate net decline, a table showing how the count rate of an isotope might change over time, and a link to a test.
Handout
University of Colorado

University of Colorado: Physics 2000: Halflife

For Students 9th - 10th
An interactive tutorial on half life. Very readable and has a little extra for the advanced student.
Interactive
University of Colorado

University of Colorado: Ph Et Interactive Simulations: Alpha Decay

For Students 9th - 10th
Via this interactive SIMS experiment, students will grasp better understanding of decay in alpha particles and their relationship to half life. Lessons and teacher tips included.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Growth and Decay Formulas

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this question set, students use exponential growth and decay functions to solve problems about compound interest, population growth, investments, and half-life. Solutions and explanations are provided for these problems.
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Other

Georgia Perimeter College: Radiometric Dating Assignment

For Students 9th - 10th
This educational resource provides information to help students understand the concept of half life.
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PBS

Pbs Teachers:nordic Sagas: Radioactive Reindeer

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Demonstrate how soil absorbs radioactivity by simulating the absorption of the radioactive isotope from the Chernobyl disaster into the lichen of Scandinavia. Use a chart to figure out the half-life of the isotope.
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Other

Nearpod: Partitioning Equal Shares

For Teachers 1st
In this lesson on partitioning equal shares, 1st graders explore halves and fourths, learn key vocabulary, and apply their learning to a real-life scenario.
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Ap Chemistry: Kinetics and Equilibrium

For Students 9th - 10th
Through interactive activities in a module format, students learn about kinetics, collision theory, reaction rates, and rate laws. They will calculate rate laws from experimental data, concentration and time, and half-life of a reaction....
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Radioactive Decay Calculator

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Young scholars will use this online Radioactive Decay Calculator to compute radioactive decay, timed decay, and timed solid disposal for a databank containing 116 isotopes. This calculator also features University of British Columbia...
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PBS

Idaho Ptv: Science Trek: Salmon

For Students 3rd - 5th
An excellent and comprehensive resource on salmon. Includes three videos: a half-hour show, a video short, and a short video where an expert answers children's questions. The facts section covers every topic you might think of, including...

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