Comes with Student Lesson Book & Parent Guide.
PDF samples can be found below in the Table of Contents.
In THE WONDERS OF LIGHT you will:
EXPLORE OPTICS WITH LENSES, MIRRORS AND MORE
- Project Real Images with the magnifier
- SPLIT SUNLIGHT into all the colors of the rainbow.
- Now you see it, now you don't with the refraction box.
- Make light MAZES and KALEIDOSCOPES with the mirrors.
EXPLORE THE PHYSICS OF WHAT LIGHT REALLY IS
- Transform the night into hundreds of colored lights with
RAINBOW GLASSES.
- Discover the POWER OF POLARIZATION in revealing colors in tape.
- Learn about the colors in clear soap bubbles.
- Experience the EERIE GLOW of chemical light.
32 EXPERIMENTS IN 16 LESSONS
- Includes a parent guide
- Enough equipment for two children working together.
- Grades 2-8.
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WHAT IS INCLUDED?
Everything you need is included in the kit:
2 plastic mirrors with mirror stands
4 neon index cards
1 acrylic WATER PRISM (Refraction Box)
1 double-lens magnifier
2 large craft sticks
2 straws
2 paper cups
1 penny
2 pairs of Rainbow Glasses (Diffraction Gratings)
1 bubble solution & wand
10 ultraviolet light sensitive beads
3 polarizing filters
1 roll of polarizing cellophane tape
1 acetate sheet
2 glow-in-the-dark star shapes
1 CHEMILUMINESCENT light stick
To Guide you on your Exploration
16 Student Lessons with a Parent Guide
(see PDFs of sample lessons in the
table of contents below)
Also available as part of the 42 lesson triple set:
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Above you see materials included for studeying reflection, refraction and chemiluminescence.
These lessons were tested at School Works Learning Center with homeschooled students in grades 3-8.
The students seemed to really enjoy them.
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THE WONDERS OF LIGHT
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TABLE OF CONTENTS FOR THE WONDERS OF LIGHT
1) Through the Looking Glass - Explore how mirrors reverse images.
(CLICK HERE TO SEE PDF OF THIS LESSON)
2) Carnival Mirrors - Discover how curved mirrors change your reflection.
3) Two Mirror Magic - Construct a mirror that will NOT reverse your image!
(CLICK HERE TO SEE PDF OF THIS LESSON)
4) Mirror Maze - Use mirrors to direct light through a maze.
5) The Mysterious Light-Bending Box - Explore intriguing light-bending effects.
(CLICK HERE TO SEE PDF OF THIS LESSON)
6) Now You See It . . . Now You Don't! - More amazing refraction experiments.
7) Water Drops and Other Lenses - Find out what makes a lens a lens.
8) Moving Pictures - Make a projector with a simple lens.
(CLICK HERE TO SEE PDF OF THIS LESSON)
9) Fire from the Sun - Focus rays of sunlight to do a small wood burning project.
10) Catch a Rainbow - Use a water prism to make many rainbows.
11) Rainbow Glasses - Discover the beauty hidden in ordinary lights.
12) Bubble Colors - Where do the colors in soap bubbles come from?
13) Invisible Colors - See the effects of ultraviolet light.
14) Polarized Light - Use amazing filters to investigate polarized light.
(CLICK HERE TO SEE PDF OF THIS LESSON)
15) Amazing Polarization Experiments - Create fascinating, changing designs and pictures.
(CLICK HERE TO SEE PDF OF THIS LESSON)
16) The Eerie Glow of Phosphorescence - Investigate glow-in-the-dark effects.