Florida State University
Florida State University: Nature of Electromagnetic Radiation
This site from The Florida State University provides an informational page on electromagnetic radiation discusses the characteristics and properties of its many forms including X-rays, gamma rays, ultraviolet radiation, infrared...
E-learning for Kids
E Learning for Kids: Science: Winery: Why Can We See Through Some Objects but Not Others?
Learn about the properties of materials in their interactions with light, including whether they are opaque, transparent, or translucent, and which of these produce shadows.
American Museum of Natural History
American Museum of Natural History: Laser O Logy Card
Flip over this interactive OLogy card to find fast facts, questions and answers, and similar bite-size pieces of information about the properties and uses of lasers.
American Association of Physics Teachers
Com Padre Digital Library: Open Source Physics: Spinning Hoop Model
A model of a bead traveling along a spinning hoop. The hoop's velocity and the bead's initial angle can be modified, and the results are displayed on an accompanying chart.
American Association of Physics Teachers
Com Padre Digital Library: Open Source Physics: Quartic Oscillator Model
A model showing the movement of a bead on a horizontal rod, with symmetric springs on each side. A phase-space chart is shown alongside the model.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: The Effects of Ear Canal Acoustics on Hearing Ability
This is a five-question quiz related to the passage "The Effects of Ear Canal Acoustics on Hearing Ability."
Other
Uni: Astronomy: Formula Light
Learn about light properties through practice with formulas. This resource shows the relationship between the speed of light, its wavelength, and its frequency. A fairly simple, but important relationship.
University of California
Center Science Edu.: Electromagnetic Radiation on Trial
Here is a 1-5 day unit on electromagnetic radiation that features a teacher guide and student activities with extensions.
Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement (SMILE)
Smile: Light (K 4)
This site provides two activities that learners can do in class. One uses mirrors to reflect light beams whole another is making a kaleidescope.
Museum of Science
The Atoms Family
Let this classic family of monsters guide you as you learn about energy. Interactive exercises, experiments, and demonstrations help to build knowledge and raise questions.
Canada Science and Technology Museum
Canada Science and Technology Museum: Materials
Test your skill and find out which materials absorb sound well.
Georgia State University
Georgia State University: Hyper Physics: Interference
An indexing page for a physics department site about the wave properties of light that lead to interference.
Science Museum, London
Science Museum: Online Stuff: Atomic Firsts
Read about three famous British atomic physicists, each of whom won a Nobel Prize. J.J. Thompson discovered the electron, Ernest Rutherford successfully split an atom, and George Paget Thomson proved that electrons had wave-like properties.
Open Ed
Open Ed Sci: 6.5 Natural Hazards
This unit begins with students experiencing, through text and video, the 2011 Great Sendai or Tohoku earthquake and subsequent tsunami that caused major loss of life and property in Japan. Students will think about ways to detect...
Concord Consortium
Concord Consortium: Stem Resources: Semiconductors
Several visualizations that help students understand the basic properties of semiconductors. Students can turn a silicon crystal into an insulator or a conductor, investigate the probability waves of an electron, and make a depletion...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Photoelectric Effect
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Students will understand the photoelectric effect and that light has both particle and wave properties. Includes a simulation for exploring the photoelectric effect.
Concord Consortium
Concord Consortium: Semiconductors
Semiconductors are the materials that make modern electronics work. Learn about the basic properties of intrinsic and extrinsic- or doped- semiconductors with several visualizations. Turn a silicon crystal into an insulator or a...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Stations of Light
Student groups rotate through four stations to examine light energy behavior: refraction, magnification, prisms and polarization. They see how a beam of light is refracted (bent) through various transparent mediums. While learning how a...
Nobel Media AB
The Nobel Prize: Otto Stern Biographical
This is a brief biography on the life and scientific work of Otto Stern, a physicist honored with the Nobel Prize in physics for his "development of the molecular ray method and his discovery of the magnetic moment of the proton."
NASA
Nasa: Beginner's Guide to Aerodynamics
Includes exhaustive information and a wealth of activities pertaining to aerodynamics and the physics of flight.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Thermal Energy
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart reviews properties of thermal energy. Examples of Electrical energy, light waves, sound waves and conduction, convection and radiation are given.
Other
Architectural Acoustics and Lighting: Room Acoustics
This site from Architectural Acoustics and Lighting provides a discussion of various factors affecting the acoustics of a given room. Room dimensions, the wavelength of the sound wave, the physical characteristics of the walls, the...