Light, Lasers, and Optics Educational Lessons
Light is for Seeing!
In this fun activity, students build a Classroom Cave and engage in an investigation to refine their understanding of how light illuminates objects and allows us to see them.
Light is for Seeing!
In this fun activity, students build a Classroom Cave and engage in an investigation to refine their understanding of how light illuminates objects and allows us to see them.
Light as Energy: Photosynthesis
What does the fact that spinach fluoresces have to do with photosynthesis? This simple and visually dramatic demonstration we’ll extract chlorophyll from the leaves of spinach and see that it...
Light as Energy: Photosynthesis
What does the fact that spinach fluoresces have to do with photosynthesis? This simple and visually dramatic demonstration we’ll extract chlorophyll from the leaves of spinach and see that it...
Light and Materials Experiment
This is a hands-on STEM of light vocabulary lesson. It introduces some fundamental language we use when learning about light. Light does different things when it hits different kinds of...
Light and Materials Experiment
This is a hands-on STEM of light vocabulary lesson. It introduces some fundamental language we use when learning about light. Light does different things when it hits different kinds of...
Kinesthetic Model of Refraction
Light slows down and bends (refracts) when it travels from one medium into another, such as from air to water or plastic. This kinesthetic activity helps young scientists understand and...
Kinesthetic Model of Refraction
Light slows down and bends (refracts) when it travels from one medium into another, such as from air to water or plastic. This kinesthetic activity helps young scientists understand and...
Introducing Fiber Optics
How do we send information over light around the globe at the speed of light? Fiber Optics and total internal reflection! Get a first hand look at the STEM of...
Introducing Fiber Optics
How do we send information over light around the globe at the speed of light? Fiber Optics and total internal reflection! Get a first hand look at the STEM of...
Hologram in your hand!
It really looks like a hologram… but this STEM lesson demonstrates the Law of Reflection by creating a Pepper’s Ghost with a PepperGram Projector™ and distinguishes the difference between a...
Hologram in your hand!
It really looks like a hologram… but this STEM lesson demonstrates the Law of Reflection by creating a Pepper’s Ghost with a PepperGram Projector™ and distinguishes the difference between a...