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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Everyday Radiation

For Students 9th - 10th
How much radiation are we exposed to every day? Find out in this video segment adapted from FRONTLINE: "Nuclear Reaction." [1:46]
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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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Website
Oregon State University

Oregon State University: Politics in the Atomic Age

For Students 9th - 10th
Oregon State online exhibit on Atomic Energy and Nuclear History features discussion and primary source material on the politics of the Atomic Age, citizen reaction and the Atomic Energy Act of 1946.
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Handout
PBS

Pbs: People & Discoveries: Ernest Rutherford

For Students 9th - 10th
A lovely biographical piece about Ernest Rutherford. A number of personal notes, along with extensive information about the physics work he did. Nice quote at the end.
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University of Oregon

Stellar Evolution: White Dwarfs

For Students 9th - 10th
Brief discussion of white dwarfs, their discovery, and evolution.
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Lesson Plan
Other

Nrc: Unit 1 Radiation

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This site has lesson plans and activities related to radiation. Activities include measuring radiation with a Geiger counter and observing radiation 'footprints' in a cloud chamber.
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Handout
National High Magnetic Field Laboratory

Magnet Academy: Enrico Fermi

For Students 9th - 10th
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....
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eBook
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Radioactive Decay Types Article

For Students 9th - 10th
This article from Khan Academy provides information about radioactive decay. This information is intended for the Class 12 Physics Course (India).
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Curated OER

Nuclear Fusion

For Students 9th - 10th
From the Atomic Archive - the online companion to the award-winning CD-ROM. This page defines nuclear fusion and depicts the process by an informative diagram. Includes numerical values which describe the typical energy values for fusion...
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Curated OER

Nuclear Fusion Movie

For Students 9th - 10th
From the Atomic Archive - the online companion to the award-winning CD-ROM. This page defines nuclear fusion and depicts the process by an informative diagram. Includes numerical values which describe the typical energy values for fusion...
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eBook
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Flex Book Textbooks: Chemistry Second Edition

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] A complete, web-based, multi-media textbook covering a wide variety of Chemistry concepts.
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Curated OER

Nuclear Fission

For Students 9th - 10th
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...
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Article
CNN

Cnn: Iran Upbeat on Nuke Incentive Plan

For Students 9th - 10th
Determines the possible outcomes if Iran continues to enrich uranium. Discusses the UN security council's reaction to stopping Iran from gaining enriched uranium and why they believe it will not be used peacefully. 6/2006
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Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Chemistry: Neutrons

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Explores the discovery and properties of the neutron and the process of nuclear fission.
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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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Interactive
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Physics Simulation: Radiocarbon Dating

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Learn about how radiocarbon dating works and how anthropologists can use this method to figure out who long ago people lived. A PDF worksheet and a video tutorial are also available. [5:41]
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Interactive
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Physics Simulation: Marie Curie's Classroom

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Study the basics of radioactive decay and the properties of atomic nuclei in Marie Curie's laboratory and classroom. A PDF worksheet and a video tutorial are also available. [3:32]
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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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Website
PBS

Pbs Nova: Dirty Bomb: Sources of Radiation

For Students 3rd - 8th
In this interactive, learn about sources of both beneficial and harmful radiation which exist in many forms all around us.
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eBook
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Chemistry for High School

For Students 9th - 10th
This digital textbook covers core chemistry concepts and includes interactive features, real-world examples, and videos.
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Article
Carnegie Mellon University

Telstar: The Sun and Its Energy

For Students 9th - 10th
The sun's energy is the primary source of energy for all surface phenomena and life on Earth. Combined with the material of the Earth (including the molecules held close by the Earth's gravitational force called the atmosphere), this...
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Handout
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Berkeley Lab: Origin of the Elements

For Students 9th - 10th
Discussion of the creation of the chemical elements that make up the matter we observe throughout the universe.
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Handout
Other

Necessity of Hiroshima: J. Robert Oppenheimer

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a short biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer provided by a personal site from Doug Long. Included is a quote of his reaction to the use of the atomic bomb several years after the war.
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Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs Teachers: Scientific Breakthroughs in Germany: Curing the Storm in the Head

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Explore medical breakthroughs in treating epilepsy. Discover how negative and positive particles behave in an electrically neutral environment, and perform an experiment to demonstrate how the human body can conduct electricity.

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