Information covering important topics for today's educators and parents. This unit introduces students to atoms and radioactivity and it also links the discoveries of Becquerel and the Curies with issues related to the role of women in science at the turn of the century. The module consists of five lessons. The first lesson introduces students to radioactivity by exposing solar graphic paper to the alpha emitter thorium 230. Included in the materials are a number of short readings on the lives and work of Marie Curie and Margaret Huggins for students to use in a group research project.
Students present their projects in lesson three.
What Was Going on in 1903, Radium, Marie Curie, and Margaret Huggins. Lessons four and five cover radioactive decay and collaboration. History of science.