Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs How to Get a Date for Episode
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...
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Half Life Lab
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....
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Berkeley Lab: Radioactivity
Overview of radioactivity, the process in which particles are emitted from nuclei as a result of nuclear instability.
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Berkeley Lab: Gamma Decay
A brief explanation of the process of gamma decay is provided.
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Berkeley Lab: Basic Nuclear Science Information
Site provides the ABC's of nuclear science including radioactivity and gamma decay to fission and comic rays.
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Berkeley Lab: Beta Decay
Entry explores the process of beta decay which occurs when, in a nucleus with too many protons or too many neutrons, one of the protons or neutrons is transformed into the other.
Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
Jefferson Lab: Alpha Decay
This site from the Jefferson Lab provides a glossary item with a good illustration.
McGraw Hill
Mc Grawl Hill: Dino Dig
A virtual lab allows you to do radiometric dating on dinosaur bones. You'll be using a mass spectrometer and utilizing several steps of the scientific method.
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Berkeley Lab: Radioactivity in Nature
This entry provides a summary of radioactivity in nature and the decay chain.
University of Colorado
University of Colorado: Ph Et Interactive Simulations: Nuclear Fission
Analyze nuclear fission chain reactions and how to prevent them as well as explore ways to control nuclear reactions through these simulations.
National High Magnetic Field Laboratory
Magnet Academy: Enrico Fermi
Enrico Fermi was a titan of twentieth-century physics. He outlined the statistical laws that govern the behavior of particles that abide by the Pauli exclusion principle and developed a theoretical model of the atom in his mid-twenties....