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While most people know that nuclear science is involved in power production and defense, it is also part of agriculture, space exploration, and medicine. Nuclear science—with all its complexities—egins simply enough with the atom. Encourage your students to become well-rounded and informed on both the positive and negative aspects of nuclear science as they learn more about this building block and how manipulating its nucleus lends itself to a wide variety of scientific endeavors.
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Lessons
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6-8
In this lesson, students will gain a better understanding of what energy is, how it can be changed into other forms of energy, and how physical and chemical processes contribute to that.
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6-8
In this lesson, students will study energy through the idea of energy transformations and conversions.
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6-8
In this lesson, students are asked to review websites to learn about the atom's basic structure and the positive and negative charges of its subparticles.
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6-8 | Hands-On
This lesson helps expand students’ concepts about atoms and how they relate to static electricity.
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6-8
This lesson helps reinforce the concept that static electricity is a phenomenon that involves positive and negative charges.
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9-12
In this lesson, students explore how a nuclear accident can affect biological systems.
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9-12
In this lesson, students learn about sources of high-energy radiation and calculate student exposure to ionizing radiation over the past year.
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9-12 | Hands-On
This lesson will help students understand how scientists use carbon dating to try to determine the age of fossils and other materials.
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9-12
This lesson introduces students to the ancient theories of matter that led to the work of John Dalton.
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9-12
In this lesson, students explore early milestones in the development of modern atomic theory and the role of John Dalton.
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9-12
In this lesson, students explore the early history of the periodic table and how it contributed to the understanding of atoms.
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9-12
In this lesson, students explore the development of modern ideas about the inner workings of atoms and the contributions of J.J. Thomson.
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9-12
In this lesson, students explore the development of modern atomic theory.
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9-12 | Hands-On
This lesson helps students build their understanding of the properties of matter and of atomic mass.
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9-12 | Hands-On
This lesson simulates radioactive decay to develop the understanding of what we mean by half-life.
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9-12
In this lesson students explore the history of the splitting of the atom.
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9-12
Students will learn how technology influences human existence by examining the benefits and risks of different biotechnological advances.
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9-12
This lesson provides students with a brief introduction to various diagnostic imaging technologies used in brain research.
Tools
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9-12 | Interactive
In this activity from A Science Odyssey on the PBS site, you have a chance to build a carbon atom.
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6-12 | Interactive
The Energy Time Machine is a site that presents the history of energy from 500,000 BCE (Before the Common Era) up to 2006.
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9-12 | Interactive
Molecules is a free application for the iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad that allows you to view three-dimensional renderings of molecules and manipulate them using your fingers.
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6-12 | Interactive
This site describes the sophisticated tools and techniques used in medical imaging including the PET scan, X ray, angiography, ultrasound, and CT Scan.
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3-8 | Interactive
This interactive challenges students to think about the positive and negative consequences of various types of power.
Science Updates
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6-12 | Audio
Astronauts on long-term space missions may face health risks that their predecessors didn't have to worry about. These Science Update reports describe two of them.
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6-12 | Audio
Learn about a thirty-year plan to replace 70 percent of our fossil fuels, using only current technologies like storable solar power, safer nuclear plants, and methanol from crop waste.
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6-12 | Audio
In this Science Update, you'll hear about a new technique for tracking birds.
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6-12 | Audio
In this Science Update, learn how scientists have calculated the force it takes to move one atom.
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6-12 | Audio
In this Science Update, hear how scientists are creating new ways to separate toxic waste and dangerous chemicals from the environment.
Videos
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9-12 | Video
Fusion has the potential to be the perfect energy source—safe, clean, and limitless—but scientists are struggling to make it work. Now a change of shape may turn the mainstream reactor design, known as a tokamak, into something simpler, faster, and cheaper.
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