Welcome Message for Teachers

Welcome to the Health Physics Society Teachers Web page, where you can request a speaker or information about radiation or a radiation safety topic to help you in the classroom. Simply complete and submit the Teacher's Request for Assistance form. A professional volunteer from our Society will contact you about specifics.

You may want to refer to the Radiation Fact Sheets, Radiation Terms and Definitions, or Position Statements of the Health Physics Society that we have developed on specific topics.

A Radiation Awareness slide presentation is available for your use in teaching the basic concepts of radiation science to your students. You will find helpful notes and graphics that provide background information for the material included in the slides.

In addition, you can Ask the Experts a question about the Society, radiation protection, or the field of health physics using the interactive features of this site. There are many questions that have already been answered. View them at the "Ask the Experts" Questions and Answers page.

We also sponsor another Web site that is dedicated to public education. This site (www.radiationanswers.org) contains scientific and objective information about radiation in a friendly, easy-to-read format.

If you or any of your students have questions concerning the excellent employment opportunities in the exciting field of health physics (radiation safety) or what they need to do to prepare for this field, please visit our Careers page and College Student Opportunities and Information page.

Please continue to check back as we expand the online assistance to teachers with teaching materials.

Reports and Resources

Classroom and Laboratory Exercises 

• Elementary Class Introduction to Radiation
• Half-Life - A Classroom Exercise 
• Introduction to Radiation and Radiation Detection - Background Radiation
• Investigating Properties of Radiation
  

A Guide for an HPS Chapter Presenting the Boy Scouts of America Nuclear Science Merit Badge

Survey Meter to Counting Instrument Transformation Instructions

Report on HPS Involvement at the Hoosier Association of Science Teachers Conference February 2009

Report on HPS Involvement at the Wisconsin Society of Science Teachers Convention Spring 2008

Report on HPS Involvement at the Minnesota Science Teacher Association Conference Spring 2008