Featured ACTIVITY: Nuclear Quest

Featured ACTIVITY

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Nuclear Quest

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Purpose

To explore nuclear chemistry.

Instructions

Play Nuclear Quest. You will need a game board, a pair of dice, Nuclear Quest cards, Gamma Radiation cards, and a game piece for each player.

Goal

Each player rolls the dice to move along the periodic table, then draws a card from the Nuclear Quest pile and does what the card says. The goal of the game is to discover element 117 and name it. This is accomplished by using nuclear chemistry to proceed through the periodic table.

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Making Sense

Write a paragraph describing what you learned about nuclear chemistry from this game.