Sally Shafer Director, Science Works Program Office: 356 Chem_Phys  Phone: (859) 257-5131 Fax: (859) 323-2846  e-mail: shafer@pa.uky.edu

Joseph Straley condensed matter theory Office: 285 Chem-Phys Phone: (859) 257-3197 e-mail: straley@pa.uky.edu web page

Welcome to our virtual workshop on light.

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We present here a Virtual Workshop on light, which will show you a set of activities you can use in your classroom, and teach you a bit about this important (and pretty) subject. There is a small kit of materials that is supposed to accompany these pages for the purposes of doing the activities; and there is a rather larger kit intended for when you use these materials in your classroom. We estimate this workshop can keep you amused and busy for at least 30 hours.
To participate, you will need several things.

• A small group of friends to work with. Of course, you can do everything yourself, but it will be more fun and educational with a partner or two.
• Your computer needs to be correctly configured to make everything work. To verify that things are working correctly, please visit this page.
• The materials kit that goes with this workshop. A lot of what we are going to do will use various science tools found in the kit. For a kit description, visit this page.
• Printed teacher manual that comes with the materials kit.  This has a lot of information and activities that go beyond what we cover in these pages.  Read it as you go through the workshop.
• A browser program (Netscape or Internet Explorer).  If you are using the CDROM version of the workshop, it is not necessary to have an active internet connection -- just tell the browser program that you will be working off-line.  However, to communicate with us by e-mail you do need to connect to the internet.  You'll also need internet access to look at some web pages at the University of Kentucky that we will send you to from time to time.  To check that this is working, please visit this page.
• We recommend that you begin by calling Joe at (859) 257-3197 and/or Sally at (859) 257-5131 to say "Hello." We'll be talking by email, but it's nice to have a voice to go with it.  We'd also like to know when you are planning to do your workshop sessions, so we can be looking for your e-mails.

Just in case you are interested, here is a page about Science Works.