Descriptions
Students can see radioactivity visualized on their computer screen originating from everyday materials and objects such as pieces of granite, ash, or paper bag from vacuum cleaners or face masks.
They can explore variations of the air radioactivity during the day, hunt for cosmic muons and check their directions, and see how altitude affects the presence of radiation types.
They can try to prepare their own (safe) radioactive source and try to construct the shielding against the radiation it emits. They can check the laws of radioactive decay. Students can directly observe how different radiation types interact with matter and what happens then.
COMPONENTS OF EDUCATION SET
Content of the Radiation Education Kit provides all the necessary equipment to conduct unique experiments right in your classroom, including a camera holder and a collimator. Ionizing radiation sources are not provided.
- MiniPIX EDU camera (detector)
- Pixet Basic software
- Translation stage
- Camera holder
- Source holder
- Collimator
- Detector cap
- Aluminum, copper, brass, and lead plates
- Thumb screws
- USB cable
