Light Sabers and Rainbows: Light in Our Lives and in Outer Space!

Materials Sun and Earth examination Globe of Earth or large ball Lamp or flashlight Dot to mark our location on the Earth Bouncing light Six or more small flashlights Six or more small flat mirrors About 30 spoons (may be plastic if mirrored-type surface) Other demonstration materials such aluminum foil, colored paper Bending light Six or more clear, straightsided glasses Six or more straws or stirrers Pitcher of water Other demonstration materials such as lenses, eyepieces, reading glasses, handheld magnifier Six or more small handheld telescopes One hobbyist-type telescope Breaking light One prism 30 or so Rainbow Glasses Lamp, candle, camping lantern, other sources of light Candle, matches, tweezers, copper sulfate Invisible light?!? Pocket radio Remote control for TV Blacklight Handouts YSE sheet "What's Up?" "Activities You Can Do at Home" How to make a periscope Hubble pictures, stickers, bookmarks Evaluation form Outline Why studying light is so important to astronomers Sunlight and the Earth, night and day Making light bounce Making light bend. How a telescope works. Making light break into colors. Rainbows from various sources of light. How the colors give us information. Invisible light!