ScienceWiz(R) Online Discovery Light: Imagine splitting white
light into hundreds of rainbows, making a kaleidoscope, molding
lenses and capturing shadows. These are only a few of the 25 projects
that has made ScienceWiz(R) Light such a favorite book and kit with
children. It comes with a 40 page science book with step by step, highly
visual instructions and materials. The Online Discovery version of
this title includes a flip-book with embedded animations, videos, games,
shadow puppet show training, explorations with an optical illusion
expert, and interactive simulations.
Children discover both the primary colors of light (RBG) and the
primary colors of paint (CMY) and crayons. They are not the same! It
may be shocking to discover that neither red nor blue are considered
primary colors for markers or paints! Most of us were misled about this
at an early age. So sad!
**They blend, bounce (reflect) and bend (refract) light. They split,
combine, scatter, absorb and filter it.
**Children examine common objects with magnifying lenses. Then they
form their own lenses using both water and then gelatin. They soon
discover that with lenses -- SHAPE is everything. They filter images and
explore the world of the invisible. They discover that only a tiny
fraction of "light" is actually visible to the human eye.
The kit comes in a convenient handle box for easy storage and transport.
Materials include rainbow glasses (diffraction glasses), a light wand
to mix colors of lights, materials to make a kaleidoscope, an electric
motor and discs to spin colors together, a prism, lens molds, materials
to make a camera obscura and two magnifiers.
