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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. 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
- Carbon Dating
- Half Life
- Radioactivity
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.
Tips for Teachers
The teacher's guide (pdf) contains tips created by the PhET team.
Teaching Ideas
| Title | Authors | Level | Type | Updated |
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Radioactive Dating Game inquiry
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Trish Loeblein | UG-Intro HS |
Lab HW |
2/19/13 |
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Using PhET in High School Chemistry- all my activities in pdf
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Trish Loeblein | UG-Intro HS |
CQs Lab HW Demo |
7/20/13 |
| Half-Life and Radiodating Game PhET Lab | Chris Bires | HS MS |
Lab | 3/14/12 |
| Radioactive Dating Game | Kevin Fairchild | MS HS |
Lab | 2/25/12 |
| Radioactive Speed Dating | Dean Baird, Paul G. Hewitt | HS MS |
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 Other MS |
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 |
| 방사성 연대 측정게임 사용지침서 | 이화국(Wha Kuk Lee) | UG-Intro HS |
Demo Other Lab |
5/13/13 |
You can submit your own ideas and activities.
Related Simulations
Translated Versions:
| Language | Language (Translated) | Simulation Title | ||
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| Albanian | shqipe | Radioactive Dating Game | Run Now | |
| Arabic | العربية | لعبة التاريخ الاشعاعي | Run Now | |
| Arabic, Saudi Arabia | العربية (السعودية) | لعبة التاريخ الاشعاعي | Run Now | |
| Basque | Basque | Datazio Erradioaktiboen Jokoa | Run Now | |
| Bosnian | Bosnian | DATIRANJE POMOĆU RADIOAKTIVNOSTI - IGRA | Run Now | |
| Brazilian Portuguese | português (Brasil) | Jogo da Datação Radiativa | Run Now | |
| Bulgarian | български | Игра за определяне на възрастта по радиоактивен метод | Run Now | |
| Catalan | català | Joc de la Datació Radioactiva | Run Now | |
| Chinese - Simplified | 中文 (中国) | 放射线定年游戏 | Run Now | |
| Chinese - Traditional | 中文 (台灣) | Radioactive Dating Game 放射線定年遊戲 | Run Now | |
| Croatian | hrvatski | Radioactive Dating Game | Run Now | |
| Czech | čeština | Radioaktivní datování hry | Run Now | |
| Danish | Dansk | Aldersbestemmelse og radioaktivitet | Run Now | |
| Dutch | Nederlands | Radioactief bepalen van de ouderdom | Run Now | |
| Estonian | Eesti | Radioaktiivne dateerimismäng | Run Now | |
| Finnish | suomi | Radioajoituspeli | Run Now | |
| French | français | Jeu de datation par la radioactivité | Run Now | |
| Galician | Gallegan | Xogo de Datación Radiactiva | Run Now | |
| Georgian | Georgian | რადიოლოგიური დათარიღება (იზოტოპური გეოქრონოლოგია) | Run Now | |
| German | Deutsch | Spiel: radioaktive Datierung | Run Now | |
| Greek | Ελληνικά | Παιχνίδι ραδιοχρονολόγησης | Run Now | |
| Haitian | Haitian | Jwèt dat Radyoaktiv | Run Now | |
| Hebrew | עברית | משחק תארוך רדיואקטיבי | Run Now | |
| Hungarian | magyar | Radiometrikus kormeghatározás | Run Now | |
| Indonesian | Bahasa Indonesia | Penentuan Umur Radiaktif | Run Now | |
| Italian | italiano | Il gioco della Datazione radiometrica | Run Now | |
| Japanese | 日本語 | 放射線年代測定ゲーム | Run Now | |
| Kannada | Kannada | ವಿಕಿರಣ ಚಟುವಟಿಕೆ | Run Now | |
| Kazakh | Kazakh | Радиоактивті Уақытты Ойын | Run Now | |
| Korean | 한국어 | 방사성 연대측정 게임 | Run Now | |
| Macedonian | македонски | Датирање со помош на радиоактивност-игра | Run Now | |
| Norwegian Bokmal | Norwegian Bokmål | Spill om radioaktiv datering | Run Now | |
| Norwegian Nynorsk | Norwegian Nynorsk | Spel om radioaktiv tidfesting | Run Now | |
| Persian | Persian | بازى زمان پرتوزا | Run Now | |
| Polish | polski | Datowanie Gra | Run Now | |
| Portuguese | português | Radioactive Dating Game | Run Now | |
| Romanian | română | Joc de datare radioactivă | Run Now | |
| Russian | русский | Радиометрическое датирование | Run Now | |
| Serbian | Српски | ДАТИРАЊЕ ПОМОЋУ РАДИОАКТИВНОСТИ - ИГРА | Run Now | |
| Slovak | Slovenčina | Datovanie rádioaktívnou metódou | Run Now | |
| Slovenian | Slovenščina | Radioaktivna igra zmenkov | Run Now | |
| Spanish | español | Juego de Datación Radioactiva | Run Now | |
| Spanish (Peru) | español (Perú) | Juego de Datación Radiactiva | Run Now | |
| Swedish | svenska | Radioaktivt dateringsspel | Run Now | |
| Turkish | Türkçe | Radyoaktif Zamanlama Oyunu | Run Now | |
| Turkmen | Turkmen | Radioaktiw usul bilen ýaş kesgitleme oýuny | Run Now | |
| Ukrainian | українська | Radioactive Dating Game | Run Now | |
| Vietnamese | Tiếng Việt | Game định thời bằng phương pháp phóng xạ | Run Now |
Software Requirements
| Windows | Macintosh | Linux |
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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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