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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Adaptive Radiation: Darwin's Finches

For Students 9th - 10th
Finches on the Galapagos Islands have evolved to exploit almost every possible niche. This diagram shows the range of food sources available on the island and the different beak shapes adapted to exploit each of them. Includes background...
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Handout
Yale University

Yale Avalon Project: Radiation Injuries in Japan

For Students 9th - 10th
Site from Yale provides detailed information about the radiation sickness that swept through the bombed areas of Japan after WWII. Detailed and thorough analysis.
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Handout
American Association of Physics Teachers

Com Padre Digital Library: Open Source Physics: Blackbody Radiation: Frequency

For Students 9th - 10th
Simulation of the blackbody radiation curves of Planck demonstrating the effect of changing the frequency or the wavelength.
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Unit Plan
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Conduction, Convection, and Radiation

For Teachers 6th - 8th
With the help of simple, teacher-led demonstration activities, students learn the basic concepts of heat transfer by means of conduction, convection, and radiation. Students then apply these concepts as they work in teams to solve two...
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Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Nuclear Radiation

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Students investigate the characteristics of radioactive emissions, and then complete equations involving radioactive decay when given pertinent information.
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Handout
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Centers for Disease Control: Acute Radiation Syndrome

For Students 9th - 10th
Information about acute radiation sickness, also known as acute radiation syndrome.
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Handout
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Centers for Disease Control: About Radiation Emergencies

For Students 9th - 10th
Frequently asked questions about radiation that answer how to protect yourself in a radiation emergency, what happens during an exposure, and how exposures usually occur.
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Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Physical Science: Thermal Radiation

For Students 7th - 9th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] How thermal energy is transferred by thermal radiation and sources of thermal radiation.
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Handout
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Centers for Disease Control: Radiation Emergencies What Should I Do?

For Students 9th - 10th
When and how to shelter in place during a radiation emergency.
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A-Z Animals

A Z Animals: Animal Facts: Radiated Tortoise (Astrochelys Radiata)

For Students 9th - 10th
Provides photographs and a fact card about the radiated tortoise, a critically endangered species. Discusses their classification and evolution, physical appearance, distribution and habitat, behavior and lifestyle, life cycle, diet,...
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Interactive
American Museum of Natural History

American Museum of Natural History: Radiated Tortoise O Logy Card

For Students 3rd - 8th
Flip this interactive OLogy card to find fast facts, questions and answers, and other bite-size pieces of information about the radiated tortoise.
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Article
The Guardian

Guardian: Fukushima Nuclear Reactor Radiation at Highest Level Since Meltdown

For Students 9th - 10th
The Japanese nuclear plant has to begin a lengthy decommissioning project. Concerns are growing over the radiation levels that have been rising since the plant's meltdown after the 2011 earthquake and tsunami.
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Handout
Science Struck

Science Struck: Conduction, Convection, and Radiation

For Students 9th - 10th
Explains the concept of heat transfer and describes conduction, convection, and radiation which are the three modes of heat transfer. Includes formulas, examples, and applications.
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Unit Plan
TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: Is Radiation Dangerous?

For Students 9th - 10th
Matt Anticole describes the different types of radiation. [5:20]
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Light and Electromagnetic Radiation Questions

For Students 9th - 10th
Questions pertaining to light and electromagnetic radiation.
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Interactive
Wisc-Online

Wisc Online: Physics: Radiation Quantities and Units

For Students 9th - 10th
Play ball using your knowledge of radiation quantities and units.
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Website
Idaho State University

Idaho State University: Radiation Measurement

For Students 9th - 10th
A brief introduction to units of radiation measurement.
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Article
Other

World Nuclear Association: Radiation and Life

For Students 9th - 10th
This article presents illustrations and a general discussion about radiation.
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Website
Mocomi & Anibrain Digital Technologies

Mocomi: What Is Radiation?

For Students 3rd - 9th
How can radiation both be a cure for and a cause of cancer? Find out what radiation actually is.
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Handout
Science Struck

Science Struck: Types of Radiation

For Students 9th - 10th
Explains how radiation is produced and the characteristics of alpha, beta, and gamma radiation.
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eBook
Libre Text

Libre Texts: Physics: Hawking Radiation

For Students 9th - 10th
A review of the theory of how black holes radiate. Understand the explanation of the mechanism responsible for Hawking radiation.
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Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Earth Science: Extinction and Radiation of Life

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Describes how species die out and how new ones evolve to fill the vacant niches.
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Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Earth Science: Extinction and Radiation of Life

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Describes how species die out, and how new ones evolve to fill the vacant niches.
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Lesson Plan
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Blackbody Radiation

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This program will produce the blackbody radiation curve for one or two objects when the student inputs the temperature(s) in kelvin. The program will also display on the curve the peak frequency and wavelength when one object is selected.

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