Radioactive Dating Game
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About
Topics
- Radiometric Dating
- Carbon Dating
- Half Life
- Radioactivity
Description
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.
Sample Learning Goals
- Explain the concept of half-life, including the random nature of it, in terms of single particles and larger samples.
- Describe the processes of decay, including how elements change and emit energy and/or particles
- Explain how radiometric dating works and why different elements are used for dating different objects.
- Identify that 1/2-life is the time for 1/2 of a radioactive substance to decay.
For Teachers
Teacher Tips
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Overview of sim controls, model simplifications, and insights into student thinking ( PDF ). |
Teacher-Submitted Activities
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| Using PhET in High School Chemistry- all my activities in pdf |
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Trish Loeblein | HS UG-Intro |
Demo HW Lab CQs |
| Radioactive Dating Game inquiry |
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Trish Loeblein | HS UG-Intro |
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| PhET Sims Aligned to the Chemistry Curriculum |
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Julia Chamberlain | UG-Intro HS |
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| How do PhET simulations fit in my middle school program? |
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Sarah Borenstein | MS | Other | |
| Alignment of PhET sims with NGSS |
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Trish Loeblein | HS | Other | |
| MS and HS TEK to Sim Alignment | Elyse Zimmer | HS MS |
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| Radioactive Speed Dating | Dean Baird, Paul G. Hewitt | HS MS |
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| Half-Life and Radiodating Game PhET Lab | Chris Bires | HS MS |
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| Radioactive Dating Game | Kevin Fairchild | HS MS |
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| Radio active Dating Game for Earth science | Heather Cox | HS | Lab | ||
| Radioactive Dating Game | Paul Burgmayer | HS | Lab | ||
| Half Life | Walter Watts | HS Other MS |
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| Radioactive Dating Game | Glenn Reagan | HS | Lab | ||
| Laboratori de Datació Radioactiva | Raquel Arévalo | HS | Demo | ||
| ma quanto è antico quest'osso? | Giovanna Mendella | HS | Other | ||
| 방사성 연대 측정게임 사용지침서 | 이화국(Wha Kuk Lee) | HS UG-Intro |
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Software Requirements
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Microsoft Windows XP/Vista/7 Sun Java 1.5.0_15 or later
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OS 10.5 or later Sun Java 1.5.0_19 or later
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Sun Java 1.5.0_15 or later
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Credits
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