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Grade levels: Senior High (10-12)
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Rate of Energy Conversion – Student Activity Guide
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Conditions for Life – Student Activity Guide
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Science Skills – Student Activity Guide
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Solar Energy in the Biosphere
Students explore the effects of light energy on matter and find evidence that light causes chemical reactions in plants. This leads to a discussion of the importance of solar energy in sustaining life and driving weather systems.
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Producers Capture Solar Energy
Explains how energy flow through the biosphere is facililtated by different types of organisms — producers, consumers and decomposers.
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Energy Converters
A weight room setting demonstrates how energy must be converted for activity and life functions to occur. A sports physiologist and an athlete examine energy efficiency and a hibernation expert discusses cellular respiration in hibernating animals.
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Radioactivity
Radioactivity is introduced. Explores the properties of alpha, beta and gamma radiation and conducts a risk-benefit assessment, in the context of food irradiation.
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Reaction Equations – Student Activity Guide
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Radioactive Decay
Radioactive decay is introduced using radioactive dating of artifacts and fossils as examples. Explains how to describe decay in terms of nuclear equations and half-life calculations.