Why Are Gems Colored?
Kids learned about light and its properties to explain the coloring of gems. 4. Fractals: Using a computer program, students generated fractals, patterns of irregular shapes. 5. Saturation and crystals: The girls made rock crystals from a kit to understand the concept of saturation. 6. Graphing Your Motion: Kids used motion detectors connected to laptops to make position-time graphs. 7. Mathematical Physics: The girls determined the center of mass of several objects through experimentation. 8. Secrets of Sound Revealed: The physics of waves and music were uncovered. 9. Astronomy: Kids learned about the galaxy through images from the Hubble Deep Field telescope.