Content Videos (Lectures and animations to supplement lessons):
- Conductors
- Semi-Conductors
- Insulators
- Doping
- P-N Junction & Diodes
- Applications of Diodes
Interactives (Online activities for student interaction & practice with content):
- Nobel Prize Semi-Conductor Tour (students take this virtual animated tour and learn that Shockley, Bardeen and Brattain, the men behind the transistor, were awarded the 1956 Nobel Prize in Physics. With the invention of the transistor, the extraordinary usefulness of semiconductors was recognized!)
- How Semi-Conductors and Transistors Work: Virtual Tutorial (students learn how semi-conductor crystals work and how they are used to make transistor switches)
- Semi-Conductors Simulation (students dope the semiconductor to create a diode. Watch the electrons change position and energy)
- Making an Integrated Circuit (students learn the step-by-step process by which an integrated circuit (IC) is made)
- Diodes (In this interactive object, learners examine the PN sections of a diode and the diode’s forward- and reverse-biased operations. A brief quiz completes the activity)
- Interactive Semi-Conductor Diode (flash-animated diagram of a diode in which students can view the p and n doped regions of silicon, click to see the circuit symbol, and take a guided tour to read about the depletion region, diffusion current and drift current)
- P-N Junction Diodes: Interactive Student Tutorial
- Rectifier Basics (animated tutorial describing how rectifiers function)
- How a Bridge Rectifier Works (animated tutorial describing the function of a bridge rectifier)
Games (Online games for students to apply & test their content knowledge):
- Transistor Recycler Game (In this game, your job working at a Transistor Recycling Centre is to ensure that only items containing transistors are sent to the recycling machine. Goods enter the recycling machine via a conveyer belt, and you must remove all the items that do not contain transistors. You are awarded one point for each item that you correctly remove from the belt. If you mistakenly remove an item with a transistor, two points will be deducted from your total score. The game has an infinite number of levels, and you will be evaluated at the end of each level. When you have completed one level you can move onto the next, in which the belt moves faster and there will be new items to sort. If you’re really skilled you could become this month’s super recycler!)
- Resistor Challenge (want to get better at identifying resistors by their color codes? This game gives you as much practice as you want; when you’re ready, take the challenge!)
- Capacitor Challenge (want to get better at identifying capacitor codes? This game will give you as much practice as you want; when you’re ready, take the challenge!)
- DIP Pin Challenge (want to get better at identifying pin numbers on dual-in-line packages? This game will give you as much practice as you want; when you’re ready, take the challenge!)
- Schematic Symbol Challenge (want to get better at recognizing schematic symbols used in electronics? This game will give you as much practice as you want; when you’re ready, take the challenge!)
- Neo-Circuit (The goal – to change all diodes steel blue, such as yours. To do this, send their electrons to neighboring diodes, which have not yet managed to capture the enemy and strengthen your position. Each diode is the number of electrons will continue to grow, so the more you will have the diodes, the chance to win)
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