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Learners explore three-dimensional geometric frames including cubes and tetrahedrons, as they create bubble wands with pipe cleaners and drinking straws.

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.

In this three-part activity, learners conduct simple experiments to see how light refracts and reflects, and how colors of light affect what we see.

In this optics activity, demonstrate diffraction using a candle or a small bright flashlight bulb and a slide made with two pencils.

In this four-part activity, learners explore light and sound through a variety of hands-on investigations.

In this activity, learners examine how colored lenses act like filters and absorb all colors of light except for the color of the lenses.

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 activity, learners work in groups of four to explore light. Learners create new colors from the primary colors of light from flashlights covered in theatrical gels or cellophane.

In this activity (posted on March 20, 2011), learners follow the steps to construct a stroboscope, a device that exploits the persistence of vision to make moving objects appear slow or stationary.

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

In this activity (posted on March 14, 2011), learners follow the steps to construct a camera projector to explore lenses and refraction.

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

In this activity, learners determine the necessary conditions for pea seed germination.

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

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

In this outdoor mapping activity, learners explore where plants grow and map plant-distribution patterns.

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

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.

This is written as a display, but can easily be adapted to a hands-on activity. Learners observe and shake containers of shiny liquids.