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In this activity, learners will create their own simple shadow puppets, and experiment with light and shadow while playing with them.

This is an activity to do when there is a solar eclipse!

In this activity, learners will see how UV light affects colors over time by making their own sunprint on construction paper.

Do you have a hard time matching paint swatches with your furniture? When you consider human perception, color is context dependent.

If you have lights, cardboard, scissors, and some brass fasteners, you can make shadow puppets! Create a story-telling and design challenge for your learners with this simple and creative activity.

Make a cuíca (“kwee-ka”), a traditional Brazilian musical instrument that originated in Africa. Played primarily in Brazil, now you can play it at home, too, with this Exploratorium produced activity.

Look at pictures through different color filters and you'll see them in a new way. People have used color filters in beautiful photography or sending secret messages.

This science activity demonstrates the dominant eye phenomena. What does your brain do when it sees two images that conflict?

This fun, nighttime hands-on astronomy activity lets learners explore how long it takes for light from different objects in the universe to reach Earth.

This fun astronomy activity allows learners to experience finding stars in the night sky that will eventually go supernova. This activity is perfect for a star party outdoors.

This is a classic exercise for visualizing the scale of the Solar System.