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In this simple activity, learners investigate refraction by placing a picture of an arrow behind a glass of water.

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

Like water drops in falling rain, a CD separates white light into all the colors that make it up.

In this activity about light and refraction, learners make a lens and magnifying glass by filling a bowl with water.

In this activity, learners use pop-beads to understand the characteristics and properties of polymer chains.

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

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.

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

In this optics activity, learners use paint thinner to make a small jar seem to disappear inside a larger jar.

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

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 test the Law of Reflection based on experimental evidence. Learners produce raw data and explanations based on their data: pencil tracings of incident and reflection rays.

In this sunny day activity, learners compare how a cup of water and a cup of tonic water reflect or refract light in the sun.

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 activity, learners create a water prism to break light into the seven colors of the rainbow.

In this optics activity, learners use glass and water to demonstrate total internal reflection (TIR).

In this demonstration (18th on the page), learners conduct a simple test to explore how the cornea refracts light, which is further bent by the eye lens through a process known as accommodation.

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