Smart Lighting Outreach

New Visions High School Students 2014

Tools/Apparatus to use for Outreach (see bottom of page).

General information on Education and Outreach, mostly relating to Light. Includes info on many kinds of activities, including:

• Jello Optics
• Color
• Many Outreach Activities

Illumineer Education and Outreach This links to modules under developement for Smart Lighting university level education and K-12 outreach. The LED Stickies activity is found under Basics of LEDs in the Outreach table. As more are added, the links will become active.

Dallin Elementary School Outreach Activities (January 2013): Overview Slides (not used), Summary of activities (shared with teachers). There were 3 activities done for all of the 5th grade students: Chocolate Bunny Melting, Light Spectra from Standard Bulbs, LED Stickies. The next few items listed provide background for these activities and information that could be used to expand their use in K-12 outreach.

• Chocolate Bunny Melting
  • CREE Video #1, CREE Video #2, Palmer Bunnies (done by KC)
  • The Chemistry of Chocolate from NBC LEARN
  • The Chemistry of Chocolate from science360
  • The Science of Chocolate from Science Kids (New Zealand)
  • Characterization of Multiphase Chocolate (real research article)
  • The Elements of Chocolate (more real research)
  • Chocolate Exhibit at the Field Museum (STEM lesson plans)
  • Food Chemistry Experiment Book from the National Health Museum Access Excellence site for Health and Bioscience teachers and learners. The full documents on Food Chemistry Experiments.
• Light Spectra from Standard Bulbs (this needs a new name)
  • Incandescent vs CFL vs LED
• LED Stickies
  • This activity is already addressed in its simplest form in the Basics of LEDs module from the Outreach table.

Mark Bauserman, whose slides you should definitely look at. Great background on human interaction with light.

Philips Student Program - Tons of Useful Info on Light and the Future of Lighting including courses, videos, webinars, etc.

Human Interaction with Light

• There is More than One Way to Fall Asleep from io9
• Saccades: Saccadic Masking, Stopped Clock Illusion, Saccadic Illusions
• Beau Lotto Vision Lab - Also check out his TED talk on How Optical Illusions Show How We See Go to about 5:22 into the talk to see a great demonstration of how we see color.

Plants and Light

• Synthesizing Light for Plant Growth from science360

Light & Lighting

• CREE Cry for Help Contest -- Collecting photos of bad lighting
• Light Bending: Refraction Phenomena, Chromatic Aberration,
• Laser Speckle Experiment from the Exploratorium

LEDs & Electronics

• Electronics Tutorials -- Especially the one on Light Emitting Diodes
• National Instruments -- Light Emitting Diodes
• The LED Light -- LED Information and Technical Data, Etendue
• SJSU -- Light Emitting Diodes

Comparing Incandescent, CFL & LED Bulbs for Residential and Commerical Application

• http://www.ledwaves.com/led-calc/
• http://www.coned.com/KIDS/pdf/coned_lightbulbs.pdf
• http://www.bulbs.com/learning/energycalc.aspx
• http://eartheasy.com/live_led_bulbs_comparison.html
• http://www.csgnetwork.com/elecenergycalcs.html
• http://www.energystar.gov/index.cfm?c=lighting.pr_lighting_landing -- The Excel spreadsheet (savings calculator) on this site is especially useful.

Writing Outside the Box

• UP-GOER FIVE TEXT EDITOR
• Ten Hundred Words of Science Archives Smart Lighting

Unrelated but Fun Info

• 50 Unbelievable Facts About the Earth from Universe Today
• Opening a Shaken Can of Coke Under Water from Mental Floss
• Theremin Music from Pamelia Kurstin

Tools/Apparatus for Outreach Activities

• Mobile Studio (many boards available)
  • MobileStudioProject.com
  • YouTube Videos (Playlist on Mobile Studio topics, including the optical communication demo)
• LittleBits
• MakeyMakey
• Arduino BASICS 101 Starter Kit
• Raspberry Pi Ultimate Starter Kit
• Dino-Lite Digital Microscope
• Bill of Materials (BOM) for Stickies in the Intro to LEDs activity.
• Diffraction Grating Slides and Light Bulbs for comparison of LEDs, CFLs, incandescents. Another activity using the slides.

Updated: 6 May, 2014