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Radioactive Dating Game
Learn about different types of radiometric dating, such as carbon dating. Understand how decay and half life work to enable radiometric dating to work. Play a game that tests your ability to match the percentage of the dating element that remains to the age of the object.
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Teaching Resources
Main Topics
- Radiometric Dating
Teaching Ideas
| Title | Authors | Level | Type | Updated |
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| Radioactive Speed Dating | Dean Baird, Paul G. Hewitt | MS HS |
Lab | 5/23/11 |
| Radio active Dating Game for Earth science | Heather Cox | HS | Lab | 1/26/10 |
| Radioactive Dating Game | Paul Burgmayer | HS | Lab | 12/25/09 |
| Half Life | Walter Watts | HS MS Other |
Lab | 11/7/09 |
| Radioactive Dating Game | Glenn Reagan | HS | Lab | 10/27/09 |
| Laboratori de Datació Radioactiva | Raquel Arévalo | HS | Demo | 6/23/11 |
You can submit your own ideas and activities.
Related Simulations
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Software Requirements
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Microsoft Windows
XP/Vista/7 Sun Java 1.5.0_15 or later |
OS 10.5 or later
Sun Java 1.5.0_19 or later |
Sun Java 1.5.0_15 or later |
Credits
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