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Dr. Seahorse Creates Rainbows Explore sunlight as it appears white and find out that it can actually consist of many different colours which can be separated into a rainbow. |
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Dr. Seahorse Sees the Invisible Our Sun provides light and heat. You can see the light, but what about the heat? In this experiment, you can make the heat visible. |
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Light Shielding Demo Due to poor shielding lighting policies here on earth, cosmic light in fading away. This demonstration illustrates the effects of lighting on our view of the night sky and how shielding can reduce light pollution while at the same time making the lighting more effective. |
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Light Shielding Lab This interactive lab illustrates the effects of lighting on our view of the night sky and how shielding can reduce light pollution while at the same time making the lighting more effective. |
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Spectra of Lights Students will explore the properties of different types of light bulbs using diffraction grating glasses to reveal the light’s unique spectra or “fingerprint”. Learn about types of lights and why we do or don’t like to use them based on their effects on people, animals, and the environment. |
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Meet our Neighbours: Sun Converting the visual to tactile experience, this activity let visually impaired students to learn and explore about our star, Sun, and its main characteristics. |
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Transit Tracks With this activity you may learn more about transits and how they affect a light curve of the star they are passing by. |
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Uncle Al’s Starwheels Build an inexpensive easy to make star map, adjustable for any time of night in any month of the year. Watch the guided video. |
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Outdoor Lighting Audit Students will be auditing the types of outdoor lights on one building at their school to determine how much energy those lights are using. Students will ultimately be making recommendations as to how their school might become more energy efficient by using a few different methods. |
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The Night You Hatched This is a science simulation that builds understanding in young learners about the effects of light pollution on the sea turtles during hatching. The activity demonstrates animal behaviour and the predator/prey relationship. |
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DIY Board Game: Light’s Journey With this DIY board game learn in a fun interactive way all about light and its journey across our Universe. |
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Happy Families! Learn about the different kinds of electromagnetic radiation that exist, in addition to optical light. |
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Spectra All Around Us Build an easy to make spectroscope and discover with your students that different sources of light do not shine in the same way. |
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Make a Colour Poster of the Life Cycle of a Star Explore the cosmic light that reach us from the different types of stars that populate our galaxy and learn more about their characteristics using Faulkes Telescope using the data from one of the largest telescopes available for education. For the user to understand the star life cycle. |
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Universe Notebook In this project students are invited to build their own Universe notebook or poster, through the acquisition of images using robotic telescopes, cameras, astronomical databases or their own drawings. |
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A Touch of the Universe Activities Here you will find a set of activities for visually impaired students and their peers, supporting “A Touch of the Universe” project featured in Cosmic Light EDU kit resource section. Watch the video tutorials. |
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Meet Our Home: Planet Earth Converting a visual to a tactile experience, this activity lets visually impaired students learn and explore our home planet, the Earth, and some of its characteristics. |
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Meet our Neighbours: Moon Converting a visual experience to a tactile one, this activity lets visually impaired students learn and explore our Moon and its characteristics. |
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Hubble Tuning Fork Project Using the data from one of the largest telescopes available for education the Faulkes Telescopes you’ll be able to produce color images of galaxies of different types, and create a your own tuning fork diagram. |
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Great selection of activities. I just noticed that the pdf file of the activity Spectra of Lights is not correct. The pdf file of the activity Light Shielding Demo seems to be linked to it instead.
Dear Maria,
Thanks for your feedback. We have updated the links. Cheers!
Hi team, Great to see this wonderful resource made available. Well done.
A small correction required. The links for the “Light shielding demo” and the “Spectra of light” activities both lead to the same document.
I’ll certainly be spreading the word and making the most of your work.
Many thank,
Steve
Royal Astronomical Society of New Zealand – Dark Skies Group
Dear Steve,
Thanks for the feedback and support. We have updated the links. Please take a look at our call: http://ark.nuclio.org/cosmiclightedukit/2015/05/13/call-to-action-cosmic-light-edu-kit-workshops/ Cheers!
Touche. Sound arguments. Keep up the good effort.