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Diffraction - The Teacher's Guide
Standards, suggestions for implementation, and suggested applets to illustrate difficult points are included in the teacher guide as a WORD document
Diffraction - Student Guide and Worksheets
The student guide and worksheets were written by Lyn Del Monte Onato, a teacher at Hidalgo High School in Hidalgo, Texas. This is a WORD document
Supplemental materials
1.) Materials List
2.) Scans of the diffraction cards used in the activity are provided as a WORD document
Accompanying PowerPoint
Several optical effects related to the activity are available in this accompanying PowerPoint presentation
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration provided support for the development of this activity under an Education and Public Outreach supplement to Grant/Contract/Agreement NNG06GC45G issued through the Office of Space Science to Dr. Daniel Jaffe.
19 November 2007
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Astronomy Program · 1 University Station C1400 · The University of Texas at Austin
Austin, Texas 78712-0259
prospective student inquiries: studentinfo@astro.as.utexas.edu
site comments: marykay@astro.as.utexas.edu