Just try your best to ignore her dirty fingernails, sigh. If it makes you feel better, after looking at the entire reel of these photos I put a couple of nail brushes in my Amazon cart. |
The spectroscopy units in the big kid's Astronomy study made me realize that I've never let the kids do much exploring with prisms, gasp!
Fortunately, there's still enough time to fix that gaping hole in their education before they go off to college. Can't have the kids trying to make their way in the world with no experiential education regarding prisms, can we?
I bought this set of four different prisms and set up a viewing station by covering a large square of cardboard in white paper, taping it to my camera tripod to make it adjustable, then taping two pieces of Styrofoam scavenged from the recycling bin upright on the cardboard with a very narrow gap between them.
It worked great!That one DID go into the Astronomy Lab Notebook!
All the play with prisms made me long for one in every single sunny window of our house, sooo... high school astronomy can have the occasional craft project associated with it, right?
Ooh, and the little kid's back to homeschooling, which means that I need to find some enrichment and contextualization and hands-on activities for Geometry. Time to break out the Zometools, then absolutely repeat this activity with a protractor at hand!
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