Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Fusion and Fission
Given diagrams, illustrations, symbols, or descriptions, student will distinguish between nuclear fusion and nuclear fission.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Nuclear Fission and Fusion Reactions
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] This lesson explains the processes of nuclear fission and nuclear fusion. Includes simulations on nuclear fission and on isotope decay.
MadSci Network
Msn: What Is Required to Initiate a Fusion Reaction?
From the Mad Scientist Network web site. Using a question and answer format, this page provides a thorough discussion of fusion reactions. Fusion and fission are compared and contrasted and the mechanisms which must occur to initiate and...
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Berkeley Lab: Nuclear Weapons
Site explores the history of the first nuclear weapons and the challenges of maintaining these weapons today.
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.
Upper Canada District School Board
Tom Stretton's Chemistry Pages: The Story of the Atomic Bomb
Here is the story of the first ever atomic bomb, beginning with early scientific ideas, leading up to the success of this weapon.
Atomic Archive
The Atomic Archive: Nuclear Chain Reactions
A couple of pages of text and graphics describing nuclear chain reactions. The means by which neutrons intiate and sustain a reaction is explained. A second page describes the complications associated with uncontrolled nuclear chain...
Atomic Archive
Atomic Archive: Developing the Hydrogen Bomb
Links to seven different documents regarding the hydrogen bomb and its development during the Cold War. Excellent resource.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Fission and Fusion: Lesson 2
This lesson will explain how fission and fusion in chemical reactions can be used to produce energy. It is 2 of 4 in the series titled "Fission and Fusion."
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Fission and Fusion: Lesson 4
This lesson will explain how fission and fusion in chemical reactions can be used to produce energy. It is 4 of 4 in the series titled "Fission and Fusion."
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Fission and Fusion: Lesson 1
This lesson will explain how fission and fusion in chemical reactions can be used to produce energy. It is 1 of 4 in the series titled "Fission and Fusion."
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Fission and Fusion: Lesson 3
This lesson will explain how fission and fusion in chemical reactions can be used to produce energy. It is 3 of 4 in the series titled "Fission and Fusion."
Physics4kids
Physics4 Kids: Modern Physics: Splitting Up
Understand the process of splitting of an atom known as fission. This site includes a video that will explore the differences between of fusion vs. fission.
Other
Characteristics of Energy and Matter
A lengthy page from the Fundamentals of Physical Geography site. Energy is distinguished from matter, and the different forms of energy are identified and discussed. Four types of heat transfer (convection, advection, conduction,...
Ducksters
Ducksters: Physics for Kids: Nuclear Energy and Fission
Kids learn about nuclear energy and fission in the science of physics including E=mc2, power plants, uses of nuclear power, and fusion.
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Berkeley Lab: Nuclear Energy: Fission/fusion
Provides a definition and explanation of fission, the splitting of a heavy nucleus into two roughly equal parts, and fusion, the process where two nuclei combine together to form a larger nucleus.
Mocomi & Anibrain Digital Technologies
Mocomi: Nuclear Fission and Nuclear Fusion
Nuclear fission and nuclear fusion are reactions that convert matter into energy. Learn the difference.
Other
University of Coimbra: Enrico Fermi Biography
Short overview of Fermi's life, including major accomplishments and dates. Good, quick place to start.
Curated OER
Nuclear Fission
A couple of pages of text and graphics describing nuclear chain reactions. The means by which neutrons intiate and sustain a reaction is explained. A second page describes the complications associated with uncontrolled nuclear chain...