For Teachers

• Guide to Careeer Education
  The Ultimate Physics Career Guide
   
• Materials Science and Technology Teacher Handbook (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)
   
• Crystallography 101. An introductory course by Bernhard Rupp.
   
• Science Friday
  Making Science Radioactive
   
• Synchrotrons – making the light fantastic. Nova - Science in the News. The goal of Nova is to provide reliable and up-to-date information for senior secondary school teachers to use in class. It also includes a glossary of terms, further reading suggestions, activities and links to related sites. Published by the Australian Academy of Science.
   
• Nanopolis.
  For profit association that provides some sychrotron related education material in its web site.
   
• Background information on the unique properties of light.
   

• The Advanced Light Source (ALS) offers a publication for 9-12 graders called Microworlds that includes Teacher Guides.
   
• The Australian Synchrotron Project has provided the following information to support the introduction of synchrotron studies into the Physics component of the Victorian Certificate of Education - VCE: Physics detailed study: Synchrotron and applications.
   
• Jefferson Lab Teacher Resources (JLab)
  Reference materials, hands-on activities, games, projects etc.
   
• Waves Light up the Universe. A teacher's guide to the Science and Mathematics of Waves Grades 9-12.
   
• seeingscience. Devised by education professionals and drawing on front line research, 'seeing science with Science and Technology Facilities Council' provides a wide range of interactive resources to support science teaching at Key Stage 3 (11 - 14 year olds) and Key Stage 4 (14-16 year olds).
   
• Solar System. Using a prism, thermometers, and blueprint paper, students recreate the 18th century experiments the proved the existence of invisible waves of sunlight.
   
• Instructions on how to build a spectroscope (a tool to detect photons).
   
• Strange Matter: What's materials science?
  Stuff for Teachers
   
• Light Tour. Activities to help students discover some of the properties of different wavelengths of light.
   

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