Radioactivity
Text: pages 618-638 and 648-655. 5 day unit.
Conceptual Text: 595-644. 10 day unit.
Objectives
After completing this section, successful students will:
1. be able to compare and contrast radioactive elements and stable elements,
2. be able to compare and contrast alpha, beta and gamma radiation,
3. be able compare and contrast nuclear fission and nuclear fusion,
4. be able to explain the use of nuclear power to produce electricity,
5. be able to explain the use of nuclear materials in medicine,
6. be able to explain the problems of nuclear waste disposal,
7. be able to perform decay computations using the half life of a radioactive material.
Activities
1. Atomic Bomb DVD Journal Entry
2. Half-Life with M&M's Simpler Version
Introductory Links
1. Define some words with the glossary http://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/glossary.htm
2. Define more words http://ie.lbl.gov/education/glossary/glossaryf.htm
3. How nuclear power works http://science.howstuffworks.com/nuclear-power.htm
4. Run a fission reaction http://library.thinkquest.org/17940/texts/java/Reaction.html?tqskip1=1&tqtime=0212
5. Watch a chain reaction http://lectureonline.cl.msu.edu/~mmp/applist/chain/chain.htm
6. How atomic bombs work http://www.howstuffworks.com/nuclear-bomb.htm
Conceptual Links
1. Define some words with the glossary http://ie.lbl.gov/education/glossary/glossaryf.htm
2. Read about a fission reaction http://library.thinkquest.org/17940/texts/fission/fission.html?tqskip1=1&tqtime=0212
3. Now run a fission reaction http://library.thinkquest.org/17940/texts/java/Reaction.html?tqskip1=1&tqtime=0212
4. Read about a fusion reaction http://library.thinkquest.org/17940/texts/ppcno_cycles/ppcno_cycles.html?tqskip1=1&tqtime=0212
5. How atomic bombs work http://www.howstuffworks.com/nuclear-bomb.htm
6. Watch a chain reaction http://lectureonline.cl.msu.edu/~mmp/applist/chain/chain.htm
7. Read about half-life http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/nuclear/halfli.html#c2
8. Complete the half life table http://ie.lbl.gov/education/isotopes.htm
Check your calculations http://www.ausetute.com.au/halflife.html
9. Nuclear Power Plant Game http://www.ae4rv.com/games/nuke.htm
10. Nuclear Medicine http://science.howstuffworks.com/nuclear-medicine.htm
Web Research Links
To optimize machine performance, close each hyperlink window when finished with the site.
Nice link site on the bomb http://www.nightscribe.com/Science_Technology/Nuclear/nuclear_weapons.htm
Visit the Greenbrier Bunker http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/bomb/sfeature/bunker.html
http://jajhs.kana.k12.wv.us/vwv/poi/bunker/bunker.htm
Yucca Mountain http://knight.noble-hs.sad60.k12.me.us/students/nuclear_waste/YuccaMountain.html
Nuclear waste http://abcnews.go.com/sections/scitech/DailyNews/nukewaste010517.html
http://www.wiskit.com/marilyn/nucwaste.html
http://www.greenpeace.org/~comms/no.nukes/waste01.html
Missile Silos/Bases http://www.missilebases.com/index.html
http://www.slb.com/seed/en/watch/silo/
http://www.zilker.net/~crossley/AtlasE/
http://www.angelfire.com/tx/missileaway/hints.html
http://detnews.com/2001/wayne/0103/09/d03-195964.htm
Underground bases http://www.mt.net/~watcher/ufounder.html
Britain Test Sites http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~mccamley/index.htm
Nuclear Site Workers http://www.hookele.com/abolition2000/silence.html
Animal testing http://www.peta-online.org/mc/facts/fsae9.html
Bikini Atoll http://www.discovery.com/stories/nature/sharkweek99/sharkweek99.html
Hiroshima http://www.csi.ad.jp/ABOMB/index.html
Nevada Test Site http://www.em.doe.gov/em94/swnts.html
Effects of the bomb http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/bomb/sfeature/effects.html
Enrichment Sites
Nuclear reactor simulation http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/bridge/meetsusp.html
Radioactive series applet http://www.journey.sunysb.edu/ProjectJava/Radiation/home.html
Watch a chain reaction http://lectureonline.cl.msu.edu/~mmp/applist/chain/chain.htm
Decay Applets http://www.colorado.edu/physics/PhysicsInitiative/Physics2000/isotopes/radioactive_decay3.html#lifetime
http://www.colorado.edu/physics/2000/isotopes/radioactive_decay3.html
http://lectureonline.cl.msu.edu/~mmp/applist/decay/decay.htm
Blast Mapper http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/bomb/sfeature/blastmap.html
Blast Videos http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/bomb/sfeature/videos.html
50 facts on weapons http://www.brook.edu/dybdocroot/FP/PROJECTS/NUCWCOST/50.HTM
National Atomic Museum http://www.atomicmuseum.com/
Physics4Kids http://www.physics4kids.com/files/mod_main.html
Lesson plan http://www.esc20.k12.tx.us/etprojects/formats/webquests/spring2001/oconnor/chwq/default.html