Light, Lasers, and Optics Educational Lessons

how light travels school activity

Follow the beam: How light travels

For young kids, light is simply something that is there or is not. There is not intuitive sense that light travels since it travels so fast. This hands on STEM...

Follow the beam: How light travels

For young kids, light is simply something that is there or is not. There is not intuitive sense that light travels since it travels so fast. This hands on STEM...

shadow formation classroom acitivity

Exploring Shadows

This hands-on STEM exploration gives students a chance to develop an intuitive sense of light and shadow. In this Exploring Shadows Lesson, students will have a hand-on experience that teaches...

Exploring Shadows

This hands-on STEM exploration gives students a chance to develop an intuitive sense of light and shadow. In this Exploring Shadows Lesson, students will have a hand-on experience that teaches...

formation of virtual images through reflection

Explore Reflection with Reflect View

Demonstrate the concept of reflection and the formation of virtual images by drawing mirror images with the Reflect View. Learning has never been this fun!

Explore Reflection with Reflect View

Demonstrate the concept of reflection and the formation of virtual images by drawing mirror images with the Reflect View. Learning has never been this fun!

color absorption and reflection activity

Color Absorption and Reflection with M&M’s

Color is familiar, but more complicated than students think. Why IS it that one m&m is red and that other one is green. Of course, it all has to do...

Color Absorption and Reflection with M&M’s

Color is familiar, but more complicated than students think. Why IS it that one m&m is red and that other one is green. Of course, it all has to do...

light transmission shadow creation

Transmission of Light, Color and Shadows

Explore the formation of shadows and selective transmission with a semi transparent Reflect View.

Transmission of Light, Color and Shadows

Explore the formation of shadows and selective transmission with a semi transparent Reflect View.

classroom experiment using laser to estimate sugar content of liquid

Estimate the sugar content of an unknown liquid

Refraction is the property of light that causes it to change speed and bend as it passes from one medium to another. The degree to which the light bends or...

Estimate the sugar content of an unknown liquid

Refraction is the property of light that causes it to change speed and bend as it passes from one medium to another. The degree to which the light bends or...