Schools can apply for a kit that includes the course material on CD-ROM and one set of materials used during the course (text, VOM, proto board, components). Schools should send their request on school letterhead to:

ARRL Education and Technology Program
Attn: Mark Spencer, WA8SME
774 Eastside Rd.
Coleville, CA 96107

Individuals and clubs can request a copy of the course materials on CD-ROM. Simply make your request via e-mail to mspencer@arrl.org. Include your mailing address.

This page lists links to Education and Technology Program kits and projects that teachers may find helpful in their individual programs. The list will be updated periodically as new projects are developed and made available.

• Modulation Demonstration Board
  The purpose of this board is to give the instructor a ready instructional resource to support lesson presentations in wave fundamentals and modulation. The board would be used in conjunction with a projection capable oscilloscope and an external audio amplifier during platform instruction of the concepts.

• School Fox Hunting Activity ... Outdoors Exercise with Wireless Technology
  Radio Direction Finding (RDF) or Fox Hunting is a popular spring and summer activity for many schools. It combines the fun of ham radio and wireless technology with outdoor activity and competition.

• The Transistor Amplifier and Waveform Exploration Board can be a very flexible instructional resource for teachers and ham radio instructors. The utility of this activity board goes beyond its intended purpose; introduce students to fundamental waveforms and allow students to explore the transistor as an amplifier.

• The Basic Electronics Course is intended for those teachers and instructors that want a ready resource that they can adapt to their instruction of electronic fundamentals. The materials include a PowerPoint presentation [18,991,104 bytes] and instructor's script [11,344,896 bytes]. The course is designed around affordable components, prototyping board, and VOM and uses Understanding Basic Electronics as the associated text. Kits including all instructional components and course CD may be purchased from ARRL.

  Schools can apply for a kit that includes the course material on CD-ROM and one set of materials used during the course (text, VOM, proto board, components). Schools should send their request on school letterhead to:

  ARRL Education and Technology Program
  Attn: Mark Spencer, WA8SME
  225 Main St.
  Newington, CT 06111

  Individuals and clubs can request a copy of the course materials on CD-ROM. Simply make your request via e-mail to mspencer@arrl.org. Include your mailing address.

• PDA/Handheld Wireless Link Demonstration Project
  The purpose of this project is to give teachers some ideas that they can use to help their students to understand what happens in today's wireless link systems. Handheld wireless devices have hit the mainstream in a big way. Wireless linked cellular telephone systems and linked Personal Data Assistance (PDAs) and palm sized computers are becoming common place. But behind these unassuming technologies are some pretty sophisticated hardware and software. Through a project similar to the one described here, students can get a better appreciation of what they hold in their hands.

• Satellite Tracker Interface
  Bringing space into the classroom is an incredibly powerful learning experience for students. The marriage between wireless technology literacy and space literacy is a strong one that produces a portfolio of activities that can engage virtually all students at some ability and interest level.

• Basic Stamp Seismometer

• Seismograph Revisited

   

• No Solder CPO
  This project is intended to show teachers and students how to use a simple technique for building a circuit using a wooden board and wood screws to make circuit connections. A circuit diagram is sized and copied to a sheet of paper that is pasted or taped to a wooden board. These links give more detail:
  • No-Solder CPO a Hit for Kalamazoo Club and Big Project Kids
  • Evolution of No-Solder CPO Kit Continues

• No Solder Electronic Organ
  This is a follow-on project similar to the No Solder CPO, but uses more complicated circuits to build a rudimentary electronic organ.

• Activity Board.
  This is the first in a series of project kits that are offered for schools. This board includes the 5 building blocks of electronics and a digital fundamentals section. There is suggested curriculum that goes along with the board. The first round of kits has been sent to schools, a second round of kits is planned for 2005.

• L/C/R Board
  This board is designed to help the teacher to cover the fundamentals of inductive and capacitive reactance and resonance. The board requires the use of a volt meter that will measure RMS voltages and currents. An oscilloscope is also helpful. The level of math required to use the experiments of this board is approximately Algebra II and there is heavy dependence of graphing calculator curve fitting techniques.

• TV Remote Decoder Board
  This board is intended to help the teacher instruct student on how the common TV remote control works. The board combined with an oscilloscope will allow the students to see the binary stream waveform being sent by the remote control using infra red light. The board decodes keys from the remote to turn on and off relays that in turn can be used to switch on and off other devices. Once the students understand the operation of the remote control, the teacher can encourage them to invent something using the board.

• Receiver Kit
  This kit includes a simple receiver kit that the teacher can build, and may elect to duplicate for individual student construction. More importantly, there is a curriculum available that details what is happening within the receiver at the block level and at the component level.

• ARISS Antenna and Satellite Antenna Tracking Interface
  
  

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