Behaviour and Properties of Light

Things to do on solar eclipse day!

Help Lenny and Lexie get ready for a solar eclipse using your unplugged coding skills.

Safely view a solar eclipse by making and using a pinhole solar eclipse viewer.

Build your own refracting telescope using glasses of water as the lenses.

Learn about how data can be used to blend math and art.

Students will explore the societal impacts of inventions involving light and sound.

Students complete a jigsaw activity to learn about careers involving light and sound.

Visible light is only part of what astronomers study. They use different types of telescopes to study the entire electromagnetic spectrum.

Light can be a type of pollution. Learn about the damage it causes to people and living things as well as how you can prevent it.

Getting electrons excited by heat can cause certain materials to give off visible light when heated - like filaments in light bulbs.

Learn about light and its properties.

Learn about reflection and refraction and meet Emily Altiere, a PhD student in physics who studies lasers.