PHET Interactive Simulations: Radioactive Dating Game

Free

University of Colorado Boulder

Resource URL

https://phet.colorado.edu/en/simulation/radioactive-dating-game

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.

Language:

English

Curriculum Alignment:

CAPS aligned

Publication Date:

2020-02-13

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Audience:

Learners

Teachers

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Application

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Creative Commons License:

Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives

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