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This webpage, created by Pamela Redmond for Teaching and Learning Interchange, provides video case studies and resources for instructors who teach math and science.  The video cases "demonstrate lessons from real general science, biology, chemistry, physics, algebra and geometry classrooms at the...

This 35-page module, developed by the National Center for Optics and Photonics Education (OP-TEC), discusses the role of optics and lasers in optoelectronics. This module "covers an overview of quantum, the use of photonics for fabrication of nanostructures, photonics for characterization, and...

This 36-page module, developed by the National Center of Optics and Photonics Education, discusses the role of optics and lasers in optoelectronics. This module "covers photonics devices in atomic force microscopy (AFM), measurement methods used in AFM, modes of operation of an AFM, applications of...

This 78-page resource, developed by the National Center for Optics and Photonics Education (OP-TEC), is a lab manual intended for high school students taking an introductory phonotics course. This manual "provides a wide variety of experiments that give students a hands-on approach to learning basic...

This 31-page module, developed by the National Center for Optics and Photonics Education (OP-TEC), discusses the role of photonics in photovoltaics and solar energy. This module "covers an introduction to solar cells, photovoltaic modules, solar collection, electrical behavior of photovoltaic's...

This 50-page resource, developed by the National Center for Optics and Photonics Education (OP-TEC), is a curriculum guide intended to support the implementation and teaching of Photonics Systems Technicians (PST) courses. This guide "provides assistance to faculty who will be developing...

This web page, from Environmental and Natural Resources Technology (EARTh), Center provides photovoltaic systems design and components course materials. The page begins with a brief overview of the material included and then is organized into the following sections: Course, Modules, and Supplemental...

This web page, from Environmental and Natural Resources Technology (EARTh) Center, provides instructional materials related to high-voltage open-circuit (Voc) testing for photovoltaic systems. The content begins with a brief overview of the material and then is organized into the following sections:...

This 6-page resource, from the STEM Guitar Project, is an activity on the physics of music waves. "This activity will help the student understand how the tension of vibrating components and the length of vibrating components on a stringed instrument affect the instrument's pitch." Students will also...

This lesson plan from the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry explores the history of piezoelectricity, with hands-on examples of how it’s used, models of why it happens, and how it is applied in nanotechnology. Pressing on the piezoelectric buzzer in the background causes a current to flow and...