Content Videos (Lectures and animations to supplement lessons):
- What are Isotopes?
- Isotope Examples
- Radioactive Isotopes
- Uses of Radioactive Isotopes
- Pollution Effects
Interactives (Online activities for student interaction & practice with content):
- Isotopes & Atomic Mass Simulation (students inquire: Are all atoms of an element the same? How can you tell one isotope from another? Use the sim to learn about isotopes and how abundance relates to the average atomic mass of an element)
- Radioactive Dating Simulation (students learn about different types of radiometric dating, such as carbon dating, & understand how decay and half life work to enable radiometric dating. Play a game that tests your ability to match the percentage of the dating element that remains to the age of the object)
- Carbon Dating (students use this interactive animation illustrating how Carbon-14 levels can be used to date organic remains. Click the arrow button to start the animation then view the decay step by step. A graph represents the falling proportion of Carbon-14 in the remains. Click the arrow button again to reset the animation)
- Stability of Isotopes of Elements Simulation
- Application: Sources of Radiation (Radiation, like energy, comes in many different forms and from many different sources. This interactive activity from NOVA identifies common forms of radiation that people encounter throughout their lives and explains where they come from and what effects they might have on human health)
Games (Online games for students to apply & test their content knowledge):
- Radioactive Dating Game (Play a game that tests your ability to match the percentage of the dating element that remains to the age of the object)
- Fission Impossible! (You are the bomb. Navigate through a nuclear fuel rod as a neutron hunting for Uranium-235 to create nuclear fission in this cool physics game for kids. Avoid Uranium-238 and flying too close to the edge or you’ll fly out into oblivion.)
- Isotopes Quiz
- Isotopic 256 (Join the elements and get to the tile with 256 isotopic mass! Watch out for unstable elements though, as these won’t be around forever!)
- Isotope Jeopardy! (Jeopardy categories include: Atoms, Electrons, Ions & Isotopes, Nuclear Chemistry & The Periodic Table)
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