Curated Video
Shades of Perception - The Effect of Coloured Filters on What We See
In this fun animation, you will learn how light behaves when it passes through a coloured filter. The video uses different coloured sunglasses to explain that coloured filters allow only certain colours of light to transmit through them....
Curated Video
Leia Light - Objects & Opacity
An explanation of how light passes through transparent, translucent and opaque objects. The science is told in an imaginative way using cutting-edge technology through the character of Leia Light - an individual who has the superpower to...
Curated Video
The Science of Seeing - Part 2
Part 2 of a 2-part series, students will continue to learn that light reflecting from objects and entering the eye allows objects to be seen. This animated sequel expands on the original experiment set out in Part 1. Students will make a...
Curated Video
The Science of Seeing - Part 1
Part 1 of a 2-part series, this animation teaches that light reflecting from objects and entering the eye allows objects to be seen. The animation features scenario-based learning to portray the science of seeing, such as headlamps to...
Bozeman Science
Bozeman Science: Light Absorption, Reflection & Transmission
In the following video Paul Andersen explains how light can be absorbed, reflected, or transmitted as it moves from one medium to another. The reflection of different wavelengths creates the perceived color of an object. Absorbed light...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Absorption in the Visible Region
Physical basis of our perception of color. Example of beta-carotene, the molecule that makes carrots orange.