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Illuminating Luminescence
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In this activity, learners compare and contrast different forms of luminescence by observing how chemiluminescence, phosphorescence, and fluorescence produce or emit light.
Guiding Light
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In this optics activity, learners use glass and water to demonstrate total internal reflection (TIR).
House Warming
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In this physical sciences activity, learners explore how passive solar design increases energy efficiency.
Sliding Gray Step
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How can you make one shade of gray look like two? By putting it against two different color backgrounds! This activity allows learners to perform this sleight of hand very easily.
What's the Angle?
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This activity helps learners understand how the angle of the Sun affects temperatures around the globe.
Slide Projector Activities
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This resource contains several mini-explorations using a slide projector as a light source to investigate light and the properties of images.
Urine the Know
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In this activity on page 5 of the PDF, learners compare water with artificial urine to see how urinalysis works. Learners use urinalysis test strips to test for glucose and protein in the fake urine.
Invisible Sunblock
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This is a hands-on activity exploring how nanoscale particles are used in mineral sunblocks to increase their transparency.
Light is Made of Colors
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Learners observe different light sources, outdoors and indoors, using prism glasses (diffraction glasses) and color filters.
The Primary Colors of Light
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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.
Give and Take
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In this activity, learners explore liquid crystals, light and temperature. Using a postcard made of temperature-sensitive liquid crystal material, learners monitor temperature changes.
Soda Can Mirrors
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In this activity, learners explore how pictures change in curved mirrors. Learners make cylindrical mirrors by wrapping Mylar around soda cans.
Bending Light
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In this optics activity, learners make a lens and explore how the eye manipulates the light that enters it.
Finding the Size of the Sun and Moon
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In this activity, learners build a simple pinhole viewer. They use this apparatus to project images from a variety of light sources, including a candle, the Sun, and the Moon.
Shadow Play
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In this three part activity, learners explore and experiment with shadows to learn about the Sun's relative motion in the sky.
Canned Heat
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In this activity, learners explore how light and dark colored objects absorb the Sun's radiations at different rates.
Benham's Disk
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In this activity, learners make a Benham Top to explore visual illusions and optics.
Glow in the Dark
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Learners experiment to see which colors of light will cause a phosphorescent (glow-in-the-dark) material to glow.
CD Spectrometer
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In this activity, learners use a compact disc to make a spectrometer, an instrument used to measure properties of light.
Liquid Crystal Thermometers
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In this activity, learners explore liquid crystal thermometers to observe how heat flows by conduction, convection, radiation, and evaporation.