Teacher Loan Kit

Use LEGO bricks to construct the first ten elements in the nuclide chart. The colour shows the decay mode and the height represents the binding energy.

This simplified model of a particle scatterer can be used to visualise famous experiments, such as Rutherford's experiment to determine the structure of the atom.

1,500 dice (100 each of 15 different colours) can be used to model radioactive decay and calculate half lives. 

Looking into the cloud chamber, you can see tracks of electrically charged particles emitted from radioactive substances, and radiation that is present in our environment. (Does not require dry ice).

The Geiger Counter will detect and measure ionising radiation, with audible clicks for each ionising event detected. 

Use the D3S Kromek Detector to identify gamma decays and neutron emissions from the provided radioactive samples, (Lo-salt and Rock Mineral samples) or your own. 

You can use the particle zoo to demonstrate beta-decay. The neutron turns inside out into a proton, emitting an electron and an anti-neutrino, (this process can also be done in reverse).

Queen Mary's University London have put together a suite of resources for using LEGO bricks to explore how our universe was created, fusion and fission, and particle physics.

The Hot CNO cycle is a sequence of reactions that provides most of the energy radiated by stars hotter than our Sun. Have your class play the game to learn about radioactive decays.

Use the Google Cardboard VR headsets with a mobile phone (not provided) to view VR content relating to Nuclear Physics, (you can also use them with any VR video on YouTube!)