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This lesson is directed to :

A heterogeneous grouping of tenth and eleventh grade learners in a suburban NY community.

Learning Standards: NYS Learning Standards

Standard 1: Analysis, Inquiry and Design

Key Idea 1:

The central purpose of scientific inquiry is to develop explanations of natural phenomena

in a continuing, creative process.

Standard 2- Information Systems

Students will access, generate, process, and transfer information using appropriate technologies.

Key Idea 1:

Information technology is used to retrieve, process, and communicate information as a

tool to enhance learning.

Standard 6—Interconnectedness: Common Themes

Students will understand the relationships and common themes that connect mathematics, science, and technology and apply the themes to these and other areas of learning

Learning Objectives

· Students will apply the law of conservation of mass, energy and charge as it applies to nuclear equations, and will demonstrate this in the process of balancing nuclear equations.

· Students will identify different types of energy.

· Students will locate the half life information for selected radioisotopes on the reference table

· Given specific examples, students will identify nuclear reactions and label them as natural or artificial transmutation, fission, and fusion.

· Students will research radioactive isotopes.

· Students will identify radioactive isotopes that are used in medicine and industrial chemistry for radioactive dating, tracing chemical and biological processes, industrial measurement, nuclear power, and detection and treatment of diseases.

· Students will assess the risks associated with radioactivity and the use of radioactive isotopes. Risks can include biological exposure, long-term storage and disposal, and nuclear accidents.

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