Design a demonstration to show that light travels in straight lines, reflects off things and casts shadows.
Chapter Two: Telescope Training
It’s your time to shine! Before you can design the world’s most powerful space telescope, you’ll need to study the science behind light – the kind we can see and, especially, the kind we can’t see. There’s more to light than meets the human eye…
Activities
Make-Your-Own Colour Wheel
Use your engineering skills to make a colour wheel that turns the spectrum into white.
Recipe for a Rainbow
Experiment with prisms and light, devising a step-by-step guide on how to make a rainbow.
Infrared Selfie
See yourself in a whole new light! Draw a portrait showing how you’d look in infrared.
Chapter Two Word Search
Can you find eight scientific words from Chapter 2? Add them to your Visual Dictionary of Deep Space!