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This unit bundle contains all eight of our nuclear physics and radioactivity resources. You will find everything you need for engaging your students in these fundamental topics: ready-to-use presentations, detailed notes, lots of practice worksheets, an online lab, 12 quizzes and 4 tests. Your students will also enjoy our fun crossword puzzle that is great for review. Products included in this bundle: (1) Isotopes (2) Decay Equations (3) Half-life (4) Decay Graphs (5) Decay Law (6) Radioactivity

This product contains quizzes and tests for nuclear physics and radioactivity. The assessments cover isotopes, types of radioactive decay, half-life, activity, graphing and interpreting decay data, carbon-14, decay law and carbon-14 dating. This resource is also included in our Nuclear Physics and Radioactivity Complete Unit Bundle which is available at a 30% discount. The following assessments are included in this product: (1) four quizzes covering isotopes and atomic structure. (2) four quizz

Contains everything you need for teaching a complete lesson on the exponential decay law for radioactive decay. Using the problem sets included in this resource your students will learn how to calculate (1) the half-life of radioactive isotopes, (2) their decay constants, (3) the activity and the number of nuclei remaining after a given time, (4) the activity and the number of nuclei in the original sample and (5) the time elapsed between measurements. These problems work well with all standard

Contains everything you need for a complete lesson on how to graph radioactive decay data to determine (1) the half-life of an isotope and (2) the amount of a sample of its activity after a given amount of time. The problems work well with all physics, chemistry and physical science curricula. These notes, worksheets and presentations are designed to be used with all of our radioactivity and nuclear physics resources. This resource is also included in our Nuclear Physics and Radioactivity Compl

Contains everything you need for a complete lesson on how to solve four types of simple radioactivity half-life problems: (1) calculating half-life, (2) calculating the amount of a sample remaining after a given amount of time, (3) calculating the amount of time needed for a sample to decay to a specific amount and (4) calculating the amount present in an original sample. The problems work well with all physics, chemistry and physical science curricula. These notes, worksheets and presentations

Contains everything you need for a complete lesson on how to write nuclear decay equations for alpha, beta minus, beta plus and gamma decay. Works well with all physics, chemistry and physical science curricula. These notes, worksheets and presentations are designed to be used with all of our radioactivity and nuclear physics resources. This resource is also included in our Nuclear Physics and Radioactivity Complete Unit Bundle which is available at a 30% discount. This resource includes: (1) T

Contains everything you need for a complete lesson on isotopes and atomic structure. Works well with all physics, chemistry and physical science curricula. These notes, worksheets and presentations are designed to be used with all of our radioactivity and nuclear physics resources. This resource is also included in our Nuclear Physics and Radioactivity Complete Unit Bundle which is available at a 30% discount. This resource includes: (1) Two pages of notes covering isotopes and atomic structure

This product contains quizzes and tests for universal gravitation, satellite motion and Kepler’s laws. The assessments cover a variety of topics including the universal gravitation, orbital velocity, orbital height, and Kepler’s third law of planetary motion. The following assessments are included in this product: (1) four quizzes covering the universal gravitation. (2) two quizzes covering satellite motion. (3) four quizzes covering Kepler’s laws of planetary motion. (4) two tests covering the

This complete unit bundle contains all eleven of our products for electricity and electric circuits. This includes everything you need to teach a full unit on electric current, Ohm’s law and resistance as well as a full set of resources for teaching resistors in series, parallel and combination. In addition, you also get three of our PhET Simulation online labs and a full set of assessments with both quizzes and tests. For each of the topics in this bundle there is a complete set of clearly writ

This product contains quizzes and tests for electric circuits. The assessments cover resistors in series, parallel and combination. The assessments test students' ability to calculate voltage, current and equivalent resistance in a variety of resistor combinations. The following assessments are included in this product: (1) two quizzes covering resistors in series. (2) two quizzes covering resistors in parallel. (3) four quizzes covering resistors in combination. (4) four tests covering resistor

Dive into some fun spaghetti physics with our Making You the Scientist Oscillating Spaghetti experiment. You can do this science lab in almost any setting: in the classroom, during home schooling, as an online learning demonstration or just a fun thing to do with the kids on the weekend. Kids love working with spaghetti and clay and the experiment can be completed in a short period of time. My middle school students always enjoy this activity. All you need are a few different kinds of spaghetti

Help your high school students master the concept of equivalent resistance with this engaging, no-prep resource! This product includes 15 problems of varying difficulty that support student understanding for finding equivalent resistance for resistors in series, parallel, and combination circuits. Designed for physics or physical science classes, the problems progress from simple series and parallel circuits to more complex combination circuits. This variety allows students to build confidence a

This product contains quizzes and tests for geometric optics. This includes reflection, refraction and the interaction of light rays with concave and convex lenses and mirrors. There are two versions of each quiz for each of the nine topics that are covered as well as a test review and two versions of the final test. The topics of the nine quizzes are as follows: (1) Reflection from plane mirrors (2) Index of refraction (3) Refraction, ray diagrams (4) Refraction, Snell's law calculations (5) To

This physics momentum bundle contains all three of our momentum, impulse and collision products. Together they can be used as a full unit covering everything your students will need for a complete understanding of these important physics topics. This bundle contains the following three products: (1) PhET Simulation Online Lab: Elastic and Inelastic Collision (2) Linear Momentum: Momentum and Impulse (3) Linear Momentum: Elastic and Inelastic Collisions Using the Collisions PhET online simulation

This unit bundle contains all nine of our products covering universal gravitation, satellite motion and Kepler’s laws of planetary motion. You will find everything you need for engaging your students in these fundamental topics: ready-to-use presentations, detailed notes, practice worksheets, online labs, a hands-on lab activity, quizzes, and tests. Your students will also enjoy the fun crossword puzzle and Going to Mars storytelling resource that allows for interdisciplinary learning. Products

What are Kepler’s laws and how do we use them to characterize the motion of the planets? What is an ellipse and how do we calculate its eccentricity? How can we calculate the masses of the planets? Using this product your students will be able to answer these questions and many others. This ready to go resource has everything you need: notes, equation sheet, presentations and a variety of exercises your students can use to master Kepler’s law. At the top of each worksheet there is a link to vi

Are your students ready to start their studies of orbital velocity, orbital height, orbital period and changes in orbital energy? With its notes, easy to follow examples, presentations and large variety of practice exercises this Satellite Motion product is just what you and your students need. The product also makes a great follow up to the first product in my Gravitation series: Newton's Laws. At the top of the worksheets there is a link to videos from my Step by Step Science YouTube Chann

This product contains everything you need for teaching mass vs. weight, gravitational fields, Newton’s law of universal gravitation and the acceleration due to gravity above the surface of the Earth. A great place to start before going on to orbital velocity, orbital height, orbital period and changes in orbital energy. At the top of the worksheets there is a link to videos from my Step by Step Science YouTube Channel. If your students need help understanding the concepts or completing the ex

Tired of searching for a complete lenses and mirrors ray diagram teaching resource? No need to search further! This resource contains everything you need for teaching how to draw ray diagrams for convex and concave lenses and mirrors. You get a full set of notes for each device, several sets of exercises for students to practice drawing ray diagrams, and complete presentations to use during instruction. There is a link to the related video from my Step by Step Science YouTube channel at the to

Looking for a great resource for teaching optics and ray diagrams for lenses and mirrors? This product contains everything you need: well organized handout notes, a set of exercises for this topic, as well as a presentation for use in your instruction. Just download and go! Answer keys are included for all exercises. There is a link to the related video from my YouTube Channel, Step-by-Step Science at the top of the worksheet. This video gives a detailed explanation of the material covered in