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This is a web page with learning objects in Sensors with lessons in: Proximity, Interfacing, and Optical. The lessons are interactive flash exercises which help to illustrate the concepts.

This is a webpage filled with Solid State learning objects including the following: Semiconductor Diodes, Rectifier Filtering and Regulation, D/A and A/D Converters, Opto Electronic Devices, Operational Amplifiers, Transistors, Thyristors, and Timers.

SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, "is an international society advancing an interdisciplinary approach to the science and application of light." SPIE publishes the SPIE Digital Library, containing more than 296,000 research papers from the Proceedings of SPIE and the...

This list of resources, assembled by the International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE), contains "lesson plans, activities, demonstrations, and free materials to provide resources for educators, parents, and students." Lessons are broken down into eight categories: Science of Light...

Superconductors.org, created by Joe Eck, is a "non-profit, non-affiliated website intended to introduce beginners and non-technical people to the world of superconductors." To this end, Eck's website contains sections such as "What is a Superconductor?" and "The History of Superconductors,"...

The mission of the Sustainable Futures Institute (SFI) at Michigan Technological University is to create and disseminate new tools, methods, knowledge, and technologies that promote, enable and support environmental, economic, and societal sustainability principles. Their page includes information...

Sustainable Sources is a website that provides information for green builders and other individuals interested in green building. Their site includes a directory of green building professionals, information on greenbuilt homes that are on the market, pertinent events, books and articles, online...

In this professional development video from Getting Results, Dr. John Bransford, professor of education at the University of Washington School of Education, as well as an instructor and a student discuss the value of applying what is learned in the classroom. Bransford and the instructor talk about...

In this interactive activity adapted from A Science Odyssey, students will look at how technology in the home has changed over time. Specifically, they will examine a timeline from 1900 to 2010 and think about technological innovations and how they changed our daily lives. The material is intended...

This online, interactive lesson provided by Wisc-Online and the National Science Foundation explains how data is transferred through electrical conductors and the various configurations in which one can find these conductors. This slideshow goes into detail about the reasoning behind twisting cables...