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Maps of Nuclear Power Reactors: Menu Page

For Students 9th - 10th
Maps showing locations of nuclear power reactors.
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Website
Smithsonian Institution

National Museum of American History: Energy Crises of the 1970s

For Students 9th - 10th
The energy crises in the 1970s had several causes and many effects. See how the groundwork for the crises was laid long before the crises became apparent.
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Unit Plan
CPALMS

Florida State University Cpalms: Florida Students: Conservation of Energy

For Students 6th - 8th
Learn about the Law of Conservation of Energy.
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Article
Famous Scientists

Famous Scientists: Otto Hahn

For Students 9th - 10th
Research about the life and discoveries of a scientist named Otto Hahn who credited with pioneering the field of radiochemistry and radioactivity.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Earth Science: Nuclear Power

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] How energy can be generated through nuclear reactions.
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Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Earth Science: Nuclear Power

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] How energy can be generated through nuclear reactions.
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Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Earth Science: Nuclear Power

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] How energy can be generated through nuclear reactions.
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Handout
Energy4Me

Energy4me: Uranium Nuclear Energy

For Students 9th - 10th
Find out how the energy source that uses uranium, nuclear energy, works to provide usable energy for people across the world.
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Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Physical Science: Forms of Energy

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Introduction to the seven different forms of energy.
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Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Physical Science: Forms of Energy

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Introduction to forms of energy including the seven different forms.
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Other

National Nuclear Science Week

For Students 9th - 10th
Here's a site dedicated to National Nuclear Science Week, Jan. 23-27, 2012. Sponsored by the National Museum of Nuclear Science & History, this special week is focused on all parts of nuclear science. You can find activities, lesson...
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Other

Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory: Fusion Basics

For Students 9th - 10th
A wealth of background information on nuclear fusion and its potential use as a commercial energy resource. The advantages of nuclear fusion over other resources, the conditions required for its successful implementation and the future...
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eBook
Atomic Archive

The Atomic Archive: Nuclear Fission

For Students 9th - 10th
Several pages describing the nuclear fission process. Fission reactions are depicted with diagrams and described in words. Part of an extensive site with well-written information on nuclear power and nuclear science.
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Lesson Plan
University of Arizona

Pulse: Powerful Explorations of Health and Energy

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A cross curricular unit where students simulate an energy task meeting to discuss protecting human health through energy policies. The unit covers content for twelfth grade in math, physics, language arts, and government. Topics reviewed...
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Article
The Washington Post

Washington Post: Going Nuclear

For Students 9th - 10th
Greenpeace founder Patrick Moore makes a case for nuclear power by listing the attributes as well as the considerations and dangers. April 16, 2006
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Website
US Department of Energy

Us Dept of Energy: Nuclear Age Timeline

For Students 9th - 10th
This site is a comprehensive timeline of the history of the nuclear age, from the discovery of radioactivity to the cleanup of nuclear weapons.
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Handout
Science Struck

Science Struck: Advantages and Disadvantages of Nuclear Energy

For Students 9th - 10th
Discusses the pros and cons of nuclear energy.
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Unit Plan
TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: How Do Nuclear Power Plants Work?

For Students 9th - 10th
M.V. Ramana and Sajan Saini detail the challenges of nuclear power.
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eBook
Chiral Publishing

Chiral Publishing: An Introduction to Chemistry: Nuclear Energy: Study Guide [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
This chapter study guide about nuclear energy allows viewers to discover the main points of nuclear energy. Learn how to write nuclear equations, draw nuclide symbols, learn how nuclear energy is a major source of energy worldwide.
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Website
Other

Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission: Acts and Regulations

For Students 9th - 10th
Government resource presents the laws and regulations that pertain to Canada's Nuclear Safety and Control Act.
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Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Earth Science: Non Renewable Energy Resources

For Students 7th - 9th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] What nonrenewable energy resources and fossil fuels are and how they form, and the drawbacks of using nonrenewable energy resources.
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Handout
US Energy Information Administration

U.s. Eia Energy Kids: Timelines: Nuclear Energy

For Students 9th - 10th
Timeline of key events in the development of nuclear energy and nuclear weapons, including early scientific discoveries related to atomic science.
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Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Physical Science: Potential Energy

For Students 6th - 9th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Definition of potential energy, gravitational potential energy, elastic potential energy and other forms of potential energy.
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Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Fourth Grade Science: Physical Science: Forms and Changes of Energy

For Students 4th - 5th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Discusses different forms of energy and how energy changes form.