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Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Investigation of Semiconductors

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Using a web quest, simulations, and hands on activity, students will gain a basic understanding of semiconductors, diodes, and photovoltaic cells. In these activities students will learn how electrons migrate in semiconductors and...
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Website
Nobel Media AB

The Nobel Prize: The Transistor

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from the Nobel Foundation provides detailed information on how the transistor works. The site provides illustrations and animations to help clarify the concepts presented.
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Interactive
Concord Consortium

Concord Consortium: Stem Resources: Semiconductors

For Students 9th - 10th
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...
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Handout
BBC

Bbc: Sport's Genetic Engineering Concerns

For Students 9th - 10th
This article discusses the growing concern that people have with genetic engineering and sports. In the site there are links to other sports stories that deal with the problem of genetic engineering.
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PPT
Other

University of Delaware Physics Department: Lithography

For Students 9th - 10th
University of Delaware Physics Department provides this indexing page for a slide show presentation.
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Website
Other

Univ. Of Delaware Physics: More Semiconductor Physics

For Students 9th - 10th
The University of Delaware Physics Department provides this site from a site titled "Silicon, Circuits, and the Digital Revolution," here is a series of four pages which explain the details behind how semiconductors work. An introduction...