For ages 5-12.

Note: One 1.5V size D battery is required and is NOT included with the pack.

Pack includes:

• full colour 40 page booklets
• motors
• sets of alligator leads (red and black)
• light bulbs and holders
• concave and convex lens forms
• magnifiers
• light wands to combine the primary colors of light (red, green, blue) into the secondary colors of cyan, magenta, yellow and white
• prisms
• rainbow diffraction glasses
• battery bands
• camera obscura sets of materials
• sets of light sensitive paper
• mylar mirrors
• kaleidoscope sets of materials
• spinner cards for combining colors

Student Experiments:

• Explore light sources.
• Use diffraction glasses and prisms to split white light into a rainbow and discover the order of the colours.
• Learn that the primary colours of light are different from that of pigments.
• Explore how the primary colours of light combine using both light wands and spinning disks.
• Show that light travels in a straight line with flashlights.
• Bounce light and discover that the angle-in equals the angle-out.
• Manipulate reflected images with multiple mirrors and with kaleidoscopes.
• Absorb or subtract colours from light and mix the primary colours of pigments.
• Bend or refract light with water and with lenses.
• Make water or gelatin lenses and learn about concave and convex surfaces.
• Find and measure the focal point of a magnifying lens.
• Combine magnifiers to make a very basic microscope and telescope.
• Determine which items are transparent, opaque or translucent.
• Capture a shadow.
• Make a camera obscura to understand how cameras work.
• Discover how diffraction lines work with feathers, diffraction glasses and CDs.
• Learn about invisible electromagnetic waves and the speed of light.