Examination of salts with Cobra SMARTsense

Principle

The students use the Geiger-Müller counter tube to examine the different samples for their radioactivity.

Benefits

• Especially understandable and didactically prepared description of the experiment (relevance to everyday life, etc.) including protocol questions.
• Future-oriented teaching: Integration into digital science lessons with tablets or smartphones.
• Increased motivation of students by using the intuitive measureAPP.
• Increased media competence.

Tasks

With the help of this experimental set-up, the students are to evaluate different substances according to their radioactivity.

Learning objectives

The aim of the experiment is to enable the students to judge for themselves whether a radioactive substance is involved.