Eric Smith- Nuclear Chemistry

Assessment
I will be using a formative assessment quiz to check for understanding after the second module of the Nuclear Chemistry unit. This will allow me to see if their knowledge is sufficient to move forward. The students will take the quiz on their own time within a window of opportunity. It will focus mostly on the following objectives:

• Given the half-life and beginning mass of a radioactive substance, the students will be able to calculate the remaining amount of the radioactive material.
• Given the time and the change in mass of the radioactive material, the student will be able to calculate the half-life of the radioactive substance.
• Given the initial mass, the final mass, and the half-life, the student will be able to calculate the amount of time for radioactive decay to the final mass.
• Students will be able to explain (written) how half-lives can be used to date living and non-living items on Earth.
• Given a Periodic Table of Elements, students will be able to list the Transuranium elements.
• Given a word problem describing a transmutation reaction, the student will be able write a balanced nuclear equation written in nuclide form.
• Students will be able to recall the nuclide formula (verbally and written) for the four types of radioactive particles (alpha, beta, positron, gamma).
• Students will be able to list the materials that can block the three most common radioactive particles (alpha, beta, and gamma) can penetrate.

Testing these objectives will be higher order thinking and application questions rather than knowledge level questions.