Search Results

In this activity, learners set up a night time insect observation station with a light and sheet.

This fun and simple hands-on astronomy activity illustrates the path of light as it reflects off of mirrors and how this is used in telescopes.

In this STEAM activity, learners create a "pixel tube" to explore reflections of light and color mixing.

In this activity, learners make a photographic image—without a camera!

In this activity, learners make their own heat waves in an aquarium.

In this optics activity, learners discover that not all shadows are black. Learners explore human color perception by using colored lights to make additive color mixtures.

In this optics/mathematics activity, learners use two hinged mirrors to create a kaleidoscope that shows multiple images of an object.

In this optics activity, learners examine how polarized light can reveal stress patterns in clear plastic.

In this food science activity, learners conduct an experiment that demonstrates the importance of light to plants.

In this art meets science activity, learners pack silver, ball-shaped ornaments in a single layer in a box to create an array of spherical reflectors.

Learners are challenged to discover the relative densities of colored liquids to create a rainbow pattern in a test tube.

This activity (page 2 of the PDF under SciGirls Activity: Double Dutch) is a full inquiry investigation into whether hearing or seeing has a bigger effect on jump rope performance.