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Experiment for pre-school- kaleidoscope

Rationale and core concepts: light, reflections, colours. Active learning, constructivism, discovery learning.

Description of the activites in the frame of a more general path: to make a kaleidoscope Kaleidoscope

Target group: 4-6 year old

Materials: Metallic silver cardboard Rolls of toilet paper Clean film Colorful pieces of paper Circle of foam or plain cardboard

Setting of the class: Smaller groups

Space and time: divide the work into 2 days for ~ 20 min at each period, space: tablesize.

What to do at home

Play with fingerpaint to mix and try different colours

Play with a glassbowl of water, putting objects in it to observe refraction

Play with mirros to understand reflection and angles

Play with light to understand light and shadow (ex. paint a portrait of their own shadow)

Experiment for elementary school

Rationale and core concepts: light, refractions, colours. Active learning, constructivism, discovery learning.

Description of the activites in the frame of a more general path: to discover what happens looking through a cylinder filled with liquid.

Target group: 6-12 year old

Cylinder with fluid

Cylinder with fluid

Cylinder with fluidMaterials• Colour filters• Tube with fluid inside• Paper with QUALITY

CHOICE (or any other symatric and asymatric word)

ExperimentLet chidern discover what causes the effect and think about what really happens. For example different colors or orientation of cylinder.

Suggestions for parents• Writing your name in the mirror.

This will give childern a feeling for the mirror and what happens.

Childern are only allowed to look in the mirror and they can’t see there hands directly.

Suggestions for parents• Mirrortunnel

Childern can look in one mirror directly in front of an other mirror. They will see a tunnel of mirrors.