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In this optics activity, learners discover how they can make glass objects "disappear." Learners submerge glass objects like stirring rods into a beaker of Wesson™ oil to explore how the principles of

In this activity about light and refraction, learners discover how a lens creates an image that hangs in midair.

In this activity, learners explore the "nuts and bolts" of gene chips.

In this activity, learners overlap the three primary colors to see how all other colors are made.

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

We're told from a young age that we have 5 senses, but we have many more. One of which is our awareness of our own body part's orientation and position.

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

In this long-term activity, learners make a home for a colorful community of microorganisms.

In this activity related to Archimedes' Principle, learners use water displacement to compare the volume of an expanded gummy bear with a gummy bear in its original condition.

In this trick, hold your hand over a burning candle without getting burned, by reflecting and transmitting the light of two candles. This activity is best suited as a demonstration.

In this activity, learners work in groups to create a time line representing significant moments in their lives.

We listen to stereo music systems, tv's, and radios because it simulates being where the sound originates.

In this demonstration, amaze learners by performing simple tricks using mirrors. These tricks take advantage of how a mirror can reflect your right side so it appears to be your left side.

In this activity about light and perception, learners discover how a flash of light can create a lingering image called an "afterimage" on the retina of the eye.

Known as the waterfall effect, this activity demonstrates adaptation in our visual system.

Create an instrument that you don't play--you just listen to it through tubes of various lengths.

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.

We don't normally view people upside down and so our brains aren't accustomed to it.

When you teeth clatter, they make quite the racket disproportionately to how much they actually sound to someone else.

Have you ever heard of a camera without a lens? In this activity, learners create a pinhole camera out of simple materials. They'll see the world in a whole new way: upside down and backwards!