Our Sonlight Science curriculum is covering light, and we decided to turn it into a bigger unit study. I remember studying light in Std 6, and it was the first time that Science was actually interesting for me.
We made a box, decorated with a lot of stickers and cards inside, but then sealed it up completely so no light came in. The little ones got to look in when it was dark and see nothing, and then we opened up a little sunroof and the whole scene inside lit up. A simple experiment yes, but it led on to some interesting discussion as to what light from the sun is actually doing, and how we can see colours.
This cool pair of glasses splits white light into all it's colours, quite a surreal thing to wear as you walk around staring at various light sources.
Eden and Niamh discovering what Translucent, transparent and opaque means.
This is one experiment I particularly liked at school, so I was chuffed to find a prism. The sunlight is coming through it as white light.
But as we turned the prism we split the white light up into the spectrum of colours.
We made a box, decorated with a lot of stickers and cards inside, but then sealed it up completely so no light came in. The little ones got to look in when it was dark and see nothing, and then we opened up a little sunroof and the whole scene inside lit up. A simple experiment yes, but it led on to some interesting discussion as to what light from the sun is actually doing, and how we can see colours.
This cool pair of glasses splits white light into all it's colours, quite a surreal thing to wear as you walk around staring at various light sources.
Eden and Niamh discovering what Translucent, transparent and opaque means.
This is one experiment I particularly liked at school, so I was chuffed to find a prism. The sunlight is coming through it as white light.
But as we turned the prism we split the white light up into the spectrum of colours.
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