Dazzling Science Projects With Light And Color

by Robert Gardner

Collects experiments pertaining to reflection, refraction, and vision, offering simple projects using household items that demonstrate the behavior of light.

48 pages, Library Binding

First published March 1, 2006

Reviews

[Cheryl · Rating 4 out of 5]

Starts out simple, but quickly gets interesting. The projects are meant to teach us about light and color, and to inspire ideas for science fair projects; the student is advised towards other resources.

In fact, the inspirations are sometimes just ideas tossed out. "Show how eyeglasses help a person see" sounds like a great research project (assuming your science fair doesn't just accept experiments and demonstrations). The answer is not in this book! Nor is the answer about how to put the rainbow made by a prism back together into white light... well, as far as I could tell.

I wish I had a kid so I could justify doing some of these projects that need a bit of special equipment. There was a lot that I could have learned that I just didn't because I didn't do the projects.

One thing they do show that my son has been trying to tell me is where the different three 'primary' colors for printers come from - cyan etc. are light colors, not painters' colors.

[Rose]

535 Gar