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In this activity, learners explore what happens when polarized white light passes through a sugar solution.

In this demonstration/experiment, learners discover that different colors and materials (metals, fabrics, paints) radiate different amounts of energy and therefore, cool at different rates.

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 about the solar system, learners use various light sources to examine ice with different components to understand how NASA studies planets and moons from space.

This resource contains several mini-explorations using a slide projector as a light source to investigate light and the properties of images.

In this activity, learners explore how light and dark colored objects absorb the Sun's radiations at different rates.

In this activity, learners act as the Earth and observe how different angles between the Sun, Earth, and Moon affect the phases of the moon we see each month.

In this activity, learners make optical fibers out of strips of gelatin.

In this activity, learners discover what happens when they crush wintergreen-flavored candies in a very dark room.

This simple hands-on activity demonstrates why the sky appears blue on a sunny day and red during sunrise and sunset.