Radioactive Dating Game

Radioactive Dating Game Screenshot
  • Radiometric Dating
  • Carbon Dating
  • Half Life
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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.
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Teacher Tips

Download teacher tips PDF Overview of sim controls, model simplifications, and insights into student thinking ( PDF ).

Teacher-Submitted Activities

Using PhET in High School Chemistry- all my activities in pdf A gold star indicates high-quality, inquiry-based activities that follow the PhET design guidelines. This contribution was designed by PhET. Trish Loeblein HS
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Radioactive Dating Game inquiry A gold star indicates high-quality, inquiry-based activities that follow the PhET design guidelines. This contribution was designed by PhET. Trish Loeblein HS
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How do PhET simulations fit in my middle school program? This contribution was designed by PhET. Sarah Borenstein MS Other Chemistry
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Alignment of PhET sims with NGSS This contribution was designed by PhET. Trish Loeblein updated by Diana López HS
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PhET Sims Aligned to the Chemistry Curriculum This contribution was designed by PhET. Julia Chamberlain UG-Intro
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Mapping of PhET and IBDP Physics Jaya Ramchandani HS Other Physics
MS and HS TEK to Sim Alignment Elyse Zimmer MS
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Radioactive Speed Dating Dean Baird, Paul G. Hewitt HS
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Radioactive Dating Game Kevin Fairchild MS
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Radio active Dating Game for Earth science Heather Cox HS Lab Earth Science
Radioactive Dating Game Paul Burgmayer HS Lab Physics
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Half Life Walter Watts MS
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Radioactive Dating Game Glenn Reagan HS Lab
SECUNDARIA: Alineación PhET con programas de la SEP México (2011 y 2017) This contribution was designed by PhET. Diana López MS
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Laboratori de Datació Radioactiva Raquel Arévalo HS Demo
ma quanto è antico quest'osso? Giovanna Mendella HS Other Earth Science
방사성 연대 측정게임 사용지침서 이화국(Wha Kuk Lee) UG-Intro
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Radioatividade: Acidente com Césio 137 em Goiânia Jorge Ricardo Almeida de Souza Filho e Ana Karine Portela Vasconcelos HS Guided
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Radioatividade e suas aplicações Ricardo Candeiro HS
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Laboratorio de datación radiactiva Elizabeth Villanueva HS
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Design Team Third-party Libraries Thanks To
  • Wendy Adams
  • John Blanco (developer)
  • Kathy Perkins
  • Noah Podolefsky
  • Carl Wieman
  • Interviewer: Noah Podolefsky
  • Piccolo