Selected Solar Education Resources on the Web

For Teachers and Kids:

• A great visual tour of the Sun can be found at http://www.astro.uva.nl/demo/sun/.
• A great fact sheet for the Sun, including a great picture,  can be found at http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/nineplanets/nineplanets/sol.html
• Another nice site for basic information about the Sun can be found at the website of the Solar Physics Group at the Mullard Space Science Laboratory, University College London: http://www.mssl.ucl.ac.uk/www_solar/homepage.html
• Florida Solar Energy Center: http://www.fsec.ucf.edu/

• California Energy Education Resources for Parents and Teachers: http://www.energy.ca.gov/education/resources/resources-html/resources.html. Also see their Energy Quest Materials: http://www.energy.ca.gov/education/, or also their projects: http://www.energy.ca.gov/education/projects/projects-html/projects.html

• State of Texas's Renewable Energy Infinite Power of Texas fact sheets for kids: http://www.infinitepower.com/fsindex.html

• US Global Change Research Program: Kids pages: http://www.cop3.de/fccc/kids/kids.html

• Energy Information Administrations kids page: http://www.eia.doe.gov/kids/enrgypg.html

• DOE Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Network animated PV tour: http://www.eren.doe.gov/pv/howworks.html

• DOE Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Network  Dr E's Energy Lab: http://www.eren.doe.gov/kids/

• National Geographic Kids Network Solar Energy unit: http://home.pf.jcu.cz/~cnte/kngo/se/seangl.htm

• US Department of Energy Solar Now Project Kid's Corner: http://www.eren.doe.gov/solarnow/

• Sandia Laboratories Elementary School Projects (including solar projects) http://www.sandia.gov/ESTEEM/Elementary.html

• Solar System Astronomy: http://www.kiddyhouse.com/Kids/space.html

• Periodic Table: http://wild-turkey.mit.edu/chemicool

• Photoelectric Effect Simulator: http://wigner.byu.edu/Photoelectric.html, or http://webphysics.ph.msstate.edu/cpp/27-5

• A short look into quantum physics: http://hyperion.on.advanced.org/16468/gather/english.htm

• To learn more about photosynthesis, a good place to start is the Arizona State University Photosynthesis program website: http://photoscience.la.asu.edu/photosyn/default.html

For Adults:

• National Renewable Energy Laboratories Info Pages: http://www.nrel.gov/clean_energy/
• State of Texas's Renewable Energy Infinite Power of Texas fact sheets for adults: http://www.infinitepower.com/fsindex.html
• DOE Energy Information Administration: http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/international/contents.html

• Sandia National Laboratories Photovoltaic Technology page. 

• National Resources Defense Council site on Energy use and impacts: http://www.energyfuturesnews.org/front.html

• US Global Change Research Program: http://www.usgcrp.gov/

• Sandia Laboratory's Photovoltaic Program: http://www.sandia.gov/pv/lib.htm

• Department of Energy Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Network: http://www.eren.doe.gov/

• Weathervane: an online forum designed to provide the news
  media, legislators, opinion leaders, and the interested public with
  analysis and commentary on U.S. and global policy initiatives related to climate change.  http://www.weathervane.rff.org

• The global warming primer and discussion at website of the Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics at Los Alamos National Laboratory: http://www.igpp.lanl.gov