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Teaching ideas for kaleidoscopes
With a bit of reverse engineering, your students can manipulate light to create the effects seen with this kaleidoscope. How?
- Fold an old overhead transparency sheet into a hollow triangular prism and then insert into a cardboard tube.
- Place some baking paper over one end of the tube and secure with a rubber band or sticky tape.
- Place some coloured beads into a plastic bag and secure on the end of the tube that has the baking paper.
- Face the tube up towards a light and look through the end… can you see similar light patterns to a kaleidoscope?
- Challenge students to create a ray diagram for the path of light in a kaleidoscope.
This kaleidoscope is part of a range of science toys, kits & teaching aids for teaching about light & colour for schools and in the home. Use for engaging science at home or in the classroom!
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-Caulfield Grammar School – Big Science Big FunThanks so much for presenting at our school on Monday. Our students enjoyed the show.
-Greenvale Primary School – Big Science Big FunFizzics Education curated a thoughtful and hands-on experience for the children, incorporating practical, skill-based learning activities and followed by a science presentation at the end of the event involving liquid nitrogen. This was delivered safely and effectively, capturing both the children and the parents for the duration of the presentation.
-Macquarie Bank – Family Fun DayFizzics Education ran a show today at our school and it was wonderful. He was a great facilitator and the show was age appropriate and well done.
-Mount Zion Early learning centre – Little Science Big Fun