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Unit Plan
Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Physical Science: Nuclear Chemistry

For Students 9th - 10th
A complete learning module with interactive activities as well as informational text to help students distinguish the characteristics and components of radioactivity.
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Unit Plan
Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Nuclear Physics

For Students 9th - 10th
Through informational text, interactive activities, and virtual animations students learn about the atomic nucleus, fission, fusion, and radioactive decay.
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Unit Plan
TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: If Superpowers Were Real: Body Mass

For Students 9th - 10th
What if manipulating body mass wasn't just the stuff of fantasies and comics? Is it scientifically possible to manipulate your body mass? In this series, creator and educator Joy Lin tackles superpowers and reveals just how...
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Handout
Other

Need: Exploring Nuclear Energy [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
This downloadable article addresses all aspects of nuclear energy. Visual charts make understanding of cycles and concepts easier. Most useful for older students and educators. PDF (requires Adobe Reader).
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Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Change of State

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Students explore how heat of fusion and heat of vaporization energy are used to create a phase change, and how a phase change can be used to do work.
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Unit Plan
Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Stars

For Students 9th - 10th
In this interactive module students will explore the life cycle of stars and how they produce energy.
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Interactive
Vision Learning

Vision Learning: Nuclear Fusion

For Students 9th - 10th
Interactive concept simulation demonstrates the nuclear fusion of deuterium and tritium inside a tokamak reactor.
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Website
Nobel Media AB

The Nobel Prize: Energy From Matter

For Students 9th - 10th
The history of energy being transformed from matter is provided at this site. The information starts at Einstein's formula, then discussions fusion, future energy sources, fission, and nuclear reactors.
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Interactive
PBS

Pbs Teachers:monster of the Milky Way: Birth of a Black Hole

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Discover how a dying star can be reborn as a black hole. View a slide show that follows the progression of events from an old, dying star to newborn black hole.
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eBook
Chiral Publishing

Chiral Publishing: An Introduction to Chemistry: Nuclear Chemistry: Audio Book

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about nuclear energy as you listen to the audio book describing nuclear chemistry. View maps, examples, graphs, and pictures describing everything from electrons to beta emissions and more.
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Graphic
US Department of Energy

Fus Ed Web: Physics of a Fundamental Energy Source

For Students 9th - 10th
An excellent resource on nuclear fusion! Using incredible graphics and excellent discussion, this site (with its several pages) provides an exhaustive online course on the topic. Click on the link for "a Guided Tour" and begin.
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Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Fission and Fusion

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Students will investigate fission and fusion, and discover how they play a part in nuclear chain reactions in fission bombs, nuclear power plants, and radiation in...
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Unit Plan
Other

Nuclear Threat Initiative: Nuclear 101: Nuclear Weapons

For Students 9th - 10th
Interactive tutorial helps with understanding nuclear weapons, the different types, how they are different from conventional weapons, and how many countries have developed them.
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Handout
MadSci Network

Msn: What Happens in a Nuclear Reaction?

For Students 6th - 8th
From The Mad Scientist Network web site. Using a question and answer format, this page discusses three types of nuclear reactions - spontaneous decay reactions, nuclear fision reactions, and nuclear fusion reactions. Each reaction type...
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Handout
MadSci Network

Msn: What Regulates the Speed of Hydrogen Fusion?

For Students 6th - 8th
From the Mad Scientist Network web site. Using a question and answer format, this page describes the various types of fusion processes and the physical requirements needed for their initiation and sustenance. Factors affecting the rates...
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Handout
MadSci Network

Msn: How Would You Explain the Process?

For Students 9th - 10th
From the Mad Scientist Network web site. Using a question and answer format, this page explains the differences between nuclear fusion and nuclear fission. The details of each process are sketched in simple language.
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Handout
Cosmos 4 kids

Cosmos4 Kids: Exploration: Rockets

For Students 3rd - 8th
The entire history of rocketry took place in 100 years! The early 1900's saw their first appearance, and by the end of the century, rocket technology took many forms with the most famous being the Space Shuttle. The brief, to the point...
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Graphic
Georgia State University

Georgia State University: Hyper Physics: Proton Proton Fusion

For Students 11th - 12th
A look at the reaction that fuels the Sun with this diagram of the nuclear fusion process.
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Handout
Georgia State University

Georgia State University: Hyper Physics: Relativistic Energy

For Students 9th - 10th
A mathematically understandable presentation of relativistic energy. Parts include Relativistic Energy, Rest Mass Energy, Conservation of Energy, Pair Production, Relativistic Kinetic Energy, and even Kinetic Energy. A couple of...
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Handout
Wikimedia

Wikipedia: Particle Physics

For Students 9th - 10th
An in-depth encyclopedia article on particle physics. Discusses what encompasses the study of particle physics, gives a history of particle physics, briefly describes the Standard Model of particle physics, discusses the dispute that...
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Website
American Association of Physics Teachers

Com Padre Digital Library: Physics to Go: Explore Physics on Your Own

For Students 9th - 10th
Contains a full physics curriculum with links to games, webcasts, and activities. By creating a free account, students and teachers can create their own personal collection of resources.
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PPT
US Department of Energy

Ippex: Fusion Power!

For Students 9th - 10th
Engaging site allows users to discover what fusion is all about by learning what it is, what the basic principles are behind it, how it works and more.
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Article
Other

Iter: What Is Fusion?

For Students 9th - 10th
Fusion is the process at the core of our Sun. What we see as light and feel as warmth is the result of a fusion reaction: hydrogen nuclei collide, fuse into heavier helium atoms and release tremendous amounts of energy in the process.
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Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Earth Science: Star Power

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Examines nuclear fusion in stars and simulated in particle accelerators.