This activity is a way to create a cloud chamber in the classroom. A cloud chamber allows students to view "invisible" alpha particles emitted through nuclear decay. Alpha particles have a long history in nuclear physics--they are a helium nucleus and their emission during nuclear decay was one of the first ways we knew that atomic nuclei could
News article from the online version of the South Florida Sun-Sentinel about PolarTREC Teacher, Elizabeth Eubanks preparations for the field with her classroom in Boynton Beach, Florida.