Light, Lasers, and Optics Educational Lessons

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...

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...

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 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...

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.

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...