Friday 13 April 2012

Seeing the light!

Yesterday our class had Micron Mark, a scientist from High Tech High Touch, Science Made Fun visit our class.   Together we explored and participated in experiments about light... which we learned that scientist call Optics!

Through water and dish soap the students
were able to see how light could be
refracted (bent.)   The light caused the colours
 to separate into the rainbow.

Observing!!!

With flashlights and prisms we could see how
when light is bent, the colours produced are
always ordered the same...
R O Y G B I V


The students loved wearing the 3-D glasses.   They allowed
us to see refraction in action.
Did you know that the colour white is
actually made up of all the colour in the
rainbow?

Micron Mark demonstrated that although light
travels in a straight line, it could be reflected and
bounced depending on where you aimed the
light beam.




The students also used mirrors and lens to
bounce light (also know as reflection!).
Making rainbows with glow sticks and
black tape!

Looking for colours...







6 comments:

  1. That is so fun!!

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  2. So cool right!?
    Me at top comment one

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  4. Whoa i never knew you can mix colors!

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  5. I never knew you could make colors with glow sticks ! It was so much fun. I loved learning about light ! Thank you Micron Mark!

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  6. hi im melissa.this lesson was a cool nice playful science learning fun lesson it was so awesome to learn about light.i learned that black reduce light and white reflects light

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