Teaching Tools

SPIE has assembled this list of websites containing lesson plans, activities, demonstrations and free materials to provide teaching resources for educators. Use these resources to bring the excitement of optics into your classroom!

Materials, Resources and Kits

• PHOTON2, Introduction to Photonics for Teachers
• Optics Educator Guide, from NASA Spacelink
• Optics Is...
• OSA Optics Discovery Kit
• National Engineers Week
• Cascade Pass - Publisher of a book series encouraging young girls in the sciences
• GT Labs - featuring "Dignifying Science" a comic book about women in science
• Newport Glass Works Education Kits
• The Internet Web Museum of Holography
  including Shoebox Holography
• Patterns in Nature: Light and Optics
• The Exploratorium
• MIT Holography Museum
• The Solar System in Pictures
• Bibliography of Classical Optics (Approx. 1500 titles, 1980-1993, in PDF format 230K, compiled by Douglas Goodman, Polaroid Corp.)
• Girl Scouts GirlsGoTech project
• TeachEngineering.com - Browse standards based K-12 curriculum modules
• Careers in Optics - CD-ROM containing interviews with engineers working in optics and photonics