Curated OER
Sight and Light
Learners examine the eyeball and its parts. For this sight lesson students divide into groups and complete a lab activity that includes creating a model.
Curated OER
How We See
Students study how images they see are transmitted to the brain. In this sight lesson students complete several activities that have to do with visual pathways and field defects.
Yale University
Yale University School of Medicine: Cranial Nerves
Detailed listing of cranial nerves with links to information about each.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mit: Open Course Ware: Resources: Understanding Lasers and Fiberoptics
A video lecture series illustrating the fundamentals of laseroptics. Topics include the physical interpretation of laser and fiberoptic phenomena and their applications.
Soft Schools
Soft Schools: Eye Cross Section
Test your knowledge of the human eye with this interactive labeling exercise.
Other
The James Clerk Maxwell Foundation
The home page of the The James Clerk Maxwell Foundation, a charitable foundation to commemorate the life and work of James Clerk Maxwell. View Maxwell's house and read about the personal life of this notable scientist.
University of Maryland
University of Maryland: Optics, Electromagnetic Waves
This site from the University of Maryland provides part of an anecdotal history of optics and the study of light. Extremely thorough treatment of how scientists came to believe in the wave nature of light, the idea of an electromagnetic...
University of St. Andrews (UK)
University of St. Andrews: James Clerk Maxwell
Research resources for James Maxwell (1831-1879), who did revolutionary work on electricity and magnetism and on the kinetic theory of gases.
University of St. Andrews (UK)
University of St. Andrews: Augustin Fresnel
A short biographical sketch on the life and work of Augustin Fresnel (1788-1827). Comments on a few of his scientific accomplishments.