This ScienceWiz™ Sample Kit enables a student to explore and develop a fundamental understanding of the key concepts of light while building a foundation for analytical thinking. Supplied in a re-sealable plastic bag.

For ages 5-12.

Note: One 1.5V size D battery is required, it is NOT included with the kit.

Each Kit includes:
• A full colour 40 page booklet
• A motor
• A set of alligator leads (red and black)
• A light bulb and holder
• 2 concave and convex lens forms
• 2 magnifiers
• A light wand to combine the primary colours of light (red, green, blue) into the secondary colours of cyan, magenta, yellow and white
• A prism
• Rainbow diffraction glasses
• 2 battery bands
• A set of camera obscura materials
• Light sensitive paper
• A mylar mirror
• A set of kaleidoscope materials
• A spinner cars for combining colours

Student Experiments:
• Explore light sources
• Use diffraction glasses and prisms to split white light into a rainbow and discover the order of the colours
• Learn that the primary colours of light are different from that of pigments
• Explore how the primary colours of light combine using both light wands and spinning disks
• Show that light travels in a straight line with flashlights
• Bounce light and discover that the angle-in equals the angle-out
• Manipulate reflected images with multiple mirrors and with kaleidoscopes
• Absorb or subtract colours from light and mix the primary colours of pigments
• Bend or refract light with water and with lenses
• Make water or gelatin lenses and learn about concave and convex surfaces
• Find and measure the focal point of a magnifying lens
• Combine magnifiers to make a very basic microscope and telescope
• Determine which items are transparent, opaque or translucent
• Capture a shadow
• Make a camera obscura to understand how cameras work
• Discover how diffraction lines work with feathers, diffraction glasses and CDs
• Learn about invisible electromagnetic waves and the speed of light

Features:
The kit consists largely of non-consumables and uses robust components designed for years of classroom use.
Extensions to the main projects are feasible.

Includes free ScienceWiz.com portal access:
Explore intriguing videos and links to information that will amuse, astonish, enrich and extend the content in the book and kit.
Internet animations and videos complement the classroom experiments.
Supplemental internet materials allow students to progress at their own pace and to their own level of interest and detail.
Contents of the website are periodically updated by the scientists and educators.

Last edited 30th May 2019