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Middle School/Junior High
- Glossary of Basic Radiation Terms
From Idaho State University
- Measuring Solar Radiation-Lesson Plan Educational material based on near real-time visualizations of atmospheric data from the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Program.
- Radiation in Our World: Fun Facts & Activities (pdf file) Activity booklet from the National Safety Council.
- BBC Radioactivity Lessons
Online lesson in radioactivity from the British Broadcasting Company, geared to 14 years and older.
- Radioactive Substances
- Radiation and Life (click on Revise to start each lesson)
- Energy and Radioactivity (click on Revise to start each lesson)
- Radiation: Atoms, isotopes, fission & fusion (click on Revise to start each lesson)
- Links to Educational Sources on Radiation From the University of Michigan - (Scroll to section titled K-12 and Teacher Training)
- Energy Kids page on Uranium (nuclear) energy From the U.S. Energy Information Administration
- Information and links on Fusion and Matter & Energy From company Easy Appliance Parts
High School
(Difficulty levels are widely varied)- neoK12: Educational Videos and Lessons for K-12 School Kids
- Nuclear Energy: the Good, the Bad, and the Debatable. Classroom material (pdf doc) written by Dr. Lana Aref, MIT, for the National Institute of Environmental Health.
- Glossary of Basic Radiation Terms From Idaho State University
- Radiation in Perspective From DOE Nevada Operations Office
- The Atomic Archive A site presented by company AJ Software & Multimedia.
- BBC Radioactivity Lessons Online lesson in radioactivity from the British Broadcasting Company, geared to 14 years and older. Click on "Revise" to view lessons.
- The ABC's of Nuclear Science From the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
- Students' Corner Part of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's School Program. Includes lesson plans.
- Ending the War Against Japan: Science, Morality, and the Atomic Bomb A five-day classroom unit developed by the Choices for the 21st Century Education Program at Brown University. (Charge for materials)
- How Things Work From the World Nuclear Association's web site.
- The Exploration of the Earth's Magnetosphere Explains radiation belts. An educational web site by David P. Stern (formerly with NASA) and Mauricio Peredo. Some material available in Spanish and French.
- Fusion Energy Educational Web Site Sponsored by company General Atomics. See the red bar for teacher and student resources.
- Physics 2000 (advanced level) Has a section under 'Table of Contents' on isotopes and radioactivity.
- Understanding Radiation A 100-page PDF document from the National Safety Council.
- Atomic Theory Created by an international team of students. For upper high school grades or college - pretty complex. Clicking 'Next' at the bottom of the page gets you to pages on 'Natural Radioactivity' and 'Half Life and Radioactive Decay.'
- Virtual Labs and Simulations Interactive graphics representing nuclear events.
- Calculate the remaining life of a source
Scholarships
- Search for scholarships at Scholarships101. Requires you to set up a free account. Note: Many of these scholarships have requirements as to college, geographic location, group, or other category.
Related Links
Radiation and Health
- National Safety Council
- Ready America: the U.S. Dept. of Homeland Security's emergency preparedness site.
- Estimate your annual radiation dose - from the Los Alamos National Laboratory site.
- Radiation Dose Chart - by xkcd
- Radiation-Emitting Products the US Food and Drug Administration.
- Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant Accident Health Effects from the Baylor College of Medicine.
- FEMA's page on nuclear hazards - including instructions on how to react to a nuclear power plant emergency.
- National Center for Biotechnology Information (with the National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health). Provides links to databases accessing health-related articles and other information.
- Office of Human Radiation Experiments US Department of Energy
- Radiation Effects Research Foundation (formerly the Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission) focuses on the study of health effects of radiation in survivors of the atomic bombings in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Includes a page on how radiation affects cells.
- Radiation Emergency Assistance Center/Training Site from the Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education.
Research Sources
- Nuclear Energy Institute
- Center for Defense Information - Includes coverage of nuclear proliferation issues.
- Consortium for Risk Evaluation with Stakeholder Participation II An Organization of the Institute for Responsible Management. A consortium of universities working to advance cost-effective cleanup and greater stakeholder understanding of the nation's nuclear weapons production facility waste sites.
- DOE Nevada's Home Page
- DOE's Office of Nuclear Energy, Science and Technology
- DOE's Office of Science
- DOE's Office of Scientific and Technical Information
- International Atomic Energy Agency
- International Commission on Radiation Units and Measurements, Inc.
- International Nuclear Information System
- Los Alamos National Laboratory Neighborhood Environmental Watch Network
- National Nuclear Data Center Brookhaven National Laboratory, NY
- National Nuclear Security Administration
- DOE's OpenNet System Access to recently declassified documents.
- Radiation Safety Information Computational Center at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory
- US Nuclear Regulatory Commission
- University of Michigan: Links to sources related to radiation
- Nuclear and Radiation Studies Board of the National Academy of Sciences