A school of fish

We did a whole unit on Nuclear Energy a few years ago. It was one of our favorite units! You can find all the posts about that unit aggreg...

There's a lot of good information about nuclear energy to be had. Along with a lot of bad information, naturally. :) Here are some of my...

So many of our books couldn't get over the idea that Fusion! is the Energy! of the Future!  I found their reasoning pretty simplistic...

We were very interested in other uses of nuclear fission technology (besides in power plants). There are two areas in particular we learne...

image from here Nuclear power plants work almost exactly like hydroelectric power plants, except they use controlled fission to make ...

I think you should be able to print these out if you download the images. (Originally from here .) Just make sure you print them both a...

My explanation of the famous equation. That's what it all comes down to, right? Anything x Very Big = also Very Big? :) Every sin...

When we started talking about fission, we needed to understand chain reactions, and of course the obvious example is with dominoes. We tri...

When I called the Hospital to schedule a tour, I asked if we could specifically see the radiology department, as that was what we were st...

Radioactivity is such an interesting phenomenon. We loved learning more about it. I highly recommend this book , not for reading aloud (it...

I thought of various ways we could build models of the atom, and finally decided on this one as the simplest. I saw some instructions for ...

Regular Hydrogen with its isotopes, deuterium and tritium I've always thought isotopes were a little tricky to visualize. But the ...

We decided to plan a nuclear energy unit after we went to the Museum of Nuclear Science and History in Albuquerque a few months ago...