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In this optics activity, learners split white light into all its component colors using three household items: a compact disc, dishwashing liquid, and a hose (outside).

In this optics activity, learners explore how they can make gelatin stop light, but not stop them from seeing fruit suspended within.

In this optics activity, learners explore how light bends and affects what we see.

In this optics activity, learners use water to make a coin "appear" and "disappear." Use this activity to demonstrate how light refracts and introduce light as waves.

In this optics activity, learners make a "light fountain" from a clear plastic bottle, flashlight, and other simple materials.

In this optics activity, learners make a lens and explore how the eye manipulates the light that enters it.

In this activity, learners use an old CD to construct a spectroscope, a device that separates light into its component colors.

In this optics activity, learners explore color by examining color dots through colored water and the light of a flashlight.

In this optics activity, learners create a ripple tank from household materials to study waves. Learners build the tank and then explore by making various types of waves.

In this activity, learners will explore how light can refract or break apart into different colors.

In this activity about light and perception, learners create pictures in thin air.

This activity generates learner excitement about light through the creation of a room-sized rainbow.

In this activity related to light and perception, learners use a pinhole in an index card as a magnifying glass to help their eye focus on a nearby object.

In this optics activity, learners explore how many objects they can see in a set of mirrors (hinged like a book) at various angles.

In this activity, learners explore why they can see colors in bubbles and why they change.

In this hands-on botany activity, learners sprout vegetables in film canisters.

In this optics activity, learners work in pairs to explore how mirrors work. Learners use tape to mark the angles needed to see each other's reflection in a wall mirror.

This is a quick activity/demonstration that introduces learners to the concept of index of refraction. Learners place stirring rods in a jar of water and notice they can see them clearly.

Align four color transparencies, each one a single color (cyan, magenta, yellow, and black), and see a beautiful full color image.

In this activity (1st on the page), learners find their blind spot--the area on the retina without receptors that respond to light.