What Can Light Shine Through?

We asked ourselves this question the other day.  We then spent some time shining our flashlights on lots of different objects, which led to some interesting conversations.  We found some objects that appeared to have translucent and transparent parts, leading us to think about objects in our home that may contain elements of both.  This investigation also led us to new questions.  Is colored glass translucent?  Or is it just colored transparency?  Does colored glass "block" light like other translucent objects?  Or does it just allow certain colors to go through?  Great questions!

Opaque, transparent, translucent

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It's All Smoke and Mirrors

One of the first investigations in our study of light was to figure out what happens when light strikes a mirror. We observed that light reflects in predictable ways. There is a "law of reflection" that works with mirrors - light beams reflect off mirrors at the same angle they strike the mirror. We decided to see if teams of scientists could use two mirrors with a flashlight and make the beam of light strike in certain places in our classroom. Here are our young scientists at work...

Exploring With Light

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