External Education Links

UG / Graduate Topics

These external links may be useful for your research

REU Programs

• Clean Energy Bridge to Research
• Molecular Engineering Materials Center

Chemistry

• Chem Wiki

• Common lab techniques

Engineering

• Engineering Pathway

• Increasing retention in engineering students

Optics

• SPIE optipedia

Optoelectronics

• Optoelectronics module UNC

• Liquid Crystals at CWRU

Organic Light Emitting Diodes

• Building a simple OLED

• Nanotechnology and Photonics Lab videos

• Royal Society of Chemistry OLED lesson plan

Materials Science

• University of Cambridge Dissemination of IT for the Promotion of Materials Science (DoITPoMS)

• Materials Digital Library Pathway

• A materials science course handbook from PNL

Nanotechnology

• University of Washington Molecular Engineering Materials REU program
• National Center for Learning and Teaching in Nanoscale Science and Engineering

• Nanotechnology education hub

• University of Wisconsin MRSEC - Video Labs

• NanoEd Resource Portal

• Wikibook on Nano optics

Photovoltaics

• University of Washington Clean Energy Bridge to Research REU program

• National Renewable Energy Laboratory NREL

Photonics and Communications Technology

• Optic Fiber

• Problem Based Learning Exercises in Photonics from NEBHE

• BYU Photonics Lab

• SPIE Fundamentals of Photonics

Reference Sources

• COPE: Center for Organic Photonics & Electronics at Georgia Tech

• ISI Science Citation Index

• Material Safety Data Sheets Search from Cornell University

• NIST Chemistry Webbook

• NIST Physics Database

• Organic Compounds Database

• Spectral Database System for Organic Compounds

• Abbreviations for Journal Names

• Useful Compilation of Information About Organic Chemistry

• Electron Microscopy Overview

• A Broad List of Named Reagents that you may come across

• IUPAC Glossary of Physical Organic Chemistry

• Encyclopedia of Laser Physics and Technology

K-16 Educational Resources

Collections

• Things to Try- K-12 Activities from other STCS

• Teacher domain- K12 resource with lots of media

• Curriki- K-12 Lessons

• How Science Works - UC Berkeley program gives an excellent overview of scientific process(es)

• Hyperphysics Georgia State University- concept maps and explanations

• Pathways to Science

• Educypedia

• Khan Academy

chemistry

• Basic chemical bonding- virtual chemistry book- good concept maps

• CK12 Virtual Textbooks

• Beyond Benign- Green chemistry education

• The ChemEd Digital Library

• Chemistry Simulations

• The Concord Consortium's Science of Atoms and Molecules project

• Molecular Workbench

energy eduation

• Energy for Kids - Energy Information Administration

• National Energy Education Development Project

• DOE- energy education and workforce development

• National Renewable Energy Laboratory

• Bonneville Environmental Foundation

materials science

• MAST Materials Science and Technology Teachers's Workshop- U of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

• Material Science Education Portal

nanotechnology and engineering

• Teach Engineering Resources for K-12

• NNIN Nanotechnology Education

physics

• Flash Animations for Physics

• The Physics Classroom - Tutorials, demonstrations and manipulatives

• PhET Interactive simulations from U of Colorado Boulder

photonics

• Program Planning for Photonics education in High School

• Molecular Expressions- Science Optics and You

• The Point Interactive modules on Photonics Material, Processes and Devices

• Hooked on Photonics REU program

Laboratory Activities

• PV_Characterization_Lab

• Phosphorescent Decay Lab

• Nanocrystalline_-_Dye_Solar_Cell_Lab

• NSF Lab modules on OPC, OLED, OTFT

• Making an OLED Lab activity in undegraduate chemistry

• OLED lab

• Organic Optoelectronics - MIT open courseware

• Green Chemistry
• 40 simple laser experiments for high school students

• Coffee cup AFM demonstration

• Cornell Lending Library

• U of Wisconsin MRSEC Video Lab manual

• Cell phone spectrometer

• Laser activities for high school

• The use of an inexpensive laser pointer to perform qualitative and semiquantitative laser refractometry Amarílis de Vicente Finageiv Neder, Edgardo García, Leonardo N. Viana Journal of Chemical Education 2001 78 (11), 1481 doi:10.1021/ed078p1481

• Using LEDs and Phosphorescent Materials To Teach High School Students Quantum Mechanics. A Guided-Inquiry Laboratory for Introductory High School Chemistry J. Chem. Educ., 2009, 86 (3), p 340 doi:10.1021/ed086p340

Kits

• Basic Optics - Outreach Kit

• Photovoltaics- Outreach Kit

• Solar Car Derby

• OSA Optics Discovery Kit

• Polymertronics OLEDS science kits

• Solar Hydrogen Activity Research Kit- SHARK

Educational Research and Program Development

• Community for Advancing Discovery Research in Education

E-learning

General Info

• Fostering E-learning in the Networked World- NSF

• NSF resources for STEM education

• Cornell Learning Molecule Concept

• Creative Commons Content Licenses

• The Carnegie Commons - Technology, teaching and learning

• Community for Advancing Discovery Research in Education (CADRE)

• Consortium for School Networking Open Source Project

Digital Libraries

• National Science Digital Library - NSDL

• Applied Math and Science Education Repository

• Chemical Education Digital Library

• Compadre

• MERLOT Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching

• The Chem Collective- Online resources for Teaching and Learning Chemistry

• SMETE Digital Library Science Mathematics Engineering and Technology Education

• Analytical Science Digital Library

Image Libraries

• NREL images

• DOE images

• Wikimedia commons

• NSF Multimedia Gallery

• Library of congress resources

• Smithsonian images

Other Wikis

• Special wiki from the Thz group at UMBC

• Wikipedia

• Wikibooks

• Wikimedia

• Wikiversity

• UC Davis ChemWiki Chemistry Textbook

Open Courseware

• MIT Open Courseware

• Open Educational Commons

• Open Learning Initiative

• Connexions

• California open source textbooks Initiative

• OC for community colleges

Tools

• eXe xhtml authoring software for building modules with SCORM output.

• JMOL molecular 3D manipulation tool and plugin

• Open Science Project - software tools for scientists

• Chem Spider Chemical Structures Database

• Moodle Course Management System

• Sakai Collaboration tools for Higher Ed

• Freemind Concept Mapping Software

• Wordle- create snazzy graphics from vocabulary, or text

• Organic Pad -- open source chemical drawing program

• Chemdraw - commercial program