Several of the topics addressed in SHEDDING LIGHT
ON SCIENCE were mentioned only briefly in the video program. We hope
that some of the Highlighted topics peaked your interest to learn more.
Here you will find further discussion and activities about some of these
topics organized by workshop number and in the order they were mentioned
in the video broadcast.
- More About Shadows: Penumbras and Umbras
- Absorption and Transmission of Photons
- Primary Colors
- Light Bulbs
- Monochromatic Pigments
- color deficiency
- optical illusions
- vision correction
- color vision in animals
- inverted images in the eye
- Seeds and Germination
- Food Storage in Seeds
- Sugar-Starch Relationship
- Testing Leaves for Starch
- What Plants Do with the Sugar They Make
- Pyramid of Numbers
- Pyramid of Biomass
- Pyramid of Energy
- Decomposition
- Law of Conservation of Energy
- Energy Flow in Ecosystems
- Aerobic Respiration
- Balance of Nature
- Ice Ages
- Absorbption
- Geometry of Spheres
- Rotational Motion and Forces
- Air Pressure
- Global Warming
- How Raindrops Are Formed
- Children's Thinking and Personification