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Automotive Industries

For Students 9th - 10th
This site is to an on-line magazine that is loaded with current and up-to-date information on the auto industry. Good general information about the auto industry.
Unit Plan
University of Utah

University of Utah: Aspire: The Aspire Breadboard

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a tutorial for creating a breadboard with an LED display as an educational outreach effort for the Telescope Array cosmic ray research project near Delta, Utah. When completed, the breadboard could be programmed to use actual...
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Other

Science Stock Photography

For Students 9th - 10th
This site has numerous pictures of microscopic images. It also has a search engine so you can find specific objects. Images were captured with light microscopes, as well as electron microscopes.
Handout
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Mit: Inventor of the Week: Robert Moog

For Students 3rd - 8th
Robert Moog fused his love music and electronics when he invented the synthesizer. This website includes background information on the creation of the synthesizer and provides several links.
Unit Plan
Concord Consortium

Concord Consortium: Quantum Tunneling

For Students 9th - 10th
Delve into a microscopic world working with models that show how electron waves can tunnel through certain types of barriers. Learn about the novel devices and apparatuses that have been invented using this concept. Discover how...
Handout
National High Magnetic Field Laboratory

Magnet Academy: Siegmund Loewe

For Students 9th - 10th
Siegmund Loewe was a German engineer and businessman that developed vacuum tube forerunners of the modern integrated circuit. He pioneered both radio and television broadcasting, and the company he established with his brother, David...
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Tel Aviv University: Mime

For Students 9th - 10th
This technical article explains MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions). MIME is a specification for enhancing the capabilities of standard Internet electronic mail. It offers a simple standardized way to represent and encode a wide...
Unit Plan
National High Magnetic Field Laboratory

Magnet Academy: Claude Shannon

For Students 9th - 10th
Claude Shannon was a mathematician and electrical engineer whose work underlies modern information theory and helped instigate the digital revolution. He was the first person to recognize how Boolean algebra could be used to great...
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Energy for Sustainable Development

Esd Bulgaria: Kids & Energy: Energy Pioneers: John Presper Eckert Jr.

For Students 9th - 10th
A profile of John Presper Eckert Jr., an American electrical engineer and computer pioneer.
Interactive
Environmental Education for Kids

Eek!: Environmental Education for Kids!

For Students 3rd - 8th
This site is an electronic magazine that features information concerning the great outdoors. This site includes information on animals, nature, earth, careers, activities, teacher lessons, and media.
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Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Career Profile: Audio and Video Equipment Technician

For Students 9th - 10th
If you are interested in electronics, you might want to investigate the career of audio and video equipment technician. Learn how to set up microphones, jumbotron screens, and projectors needed for Power Point presentations and keep them...
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Other

U Seek U Find: Tutorials N Surfing

For Students 9th - 10th
Provides links to tutorials on many WWW topics including surfing, searching and email.
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National Institutes of Health

Ncbi: The Molecular Biology of the Cell: The Chemical Components of a Cell

For Students 9th - 10th
Advanced chapter of the book "The Molecular Biology of the Cell" describes and provides illustrations of our most current understanding of the chemical makeup of cells and their components. Explains in detail how electron activity keeps...
Activity
Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Spin Right 'Round With This Simple Electric Motor

For Students 6th - 8th
If you put on clothes that were washed in a washing machine, rode in a car, ate food from a fridge, warmed up lunch in a microwave, or played a video game, you used an electric motor. Try this science fair project and you'll learn how to...
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Other

U.s. Army: A Report on the Eniac

For Students 9th - 10th
This site has a copy of the original report on the ENIAC high-speed electronic computing machine, from the Moore School of Electrical Engineering, University of Pennsylvania. Includes a detailed and technical description of how the...
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PBS

Pbs: Who Made America?: Innovators: Pierre Omidyar

For Students 9th - 10th
This Silicon Valley technologist built an equitable electronic marketplace for Americans to buy and sell their stuff -- and created an impressive economic engine in the bargain.
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American Chemical Society

American Chemical Society: Hompage

For Students 9th - 10th
ChemCenter, available from the American Chemical Society, provides chemistry news, reference sources and other public services.
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Library of Congress

Loc: What in the World Is That?

For Students 3rd - 8th
Can you match the picture to the correct invention? Read about these inventions and the importance of them. Also included are related sites to find further information about each invention.