Follow this museum trail and discover through seven paintings how different cultures have used light as a form of symbolism in their work.

This lesson will introduce light waves and describe how a particle can travel as a photon or a wave. It is 4 of 4 in the series titled "Light Waves."

A good look at the story behind a painting titled "Lights of a City Street."

This lesson will introduce light waves and describe how a particle can travel as a photon or a wave. It is 3 of 4 in the series titled "Light Waves."

An audio slideshow narrated by the set designer for the Tony Award-winning musical "The Light in the Piazza." Discusses the set designer's art as well as the designer's inspirations for the sets, both the exterior scenes of Florentine...

Why are things colored? This site explores the 15 phenomena that create our colorful world. Learn how light is made, lost, and moved!

In a provided image, students try to identify what ordinary objects in the house can kick light into a lower gear. Find out why the speed of light isn't always 186,000 miles per second.

A PowerPoint presentation reviewing the steps in the light reaction of photosynthesis. Understand how the light reaction uses water, carbon dioxide and light energy to produce ATP.

This lesson will give an overview of the light reaction of photosynthesis. It is 1 of 3 in the series titled "Light Reaction."

Use this tool to learn facts about the range of the electromagnetic spectrum, from radio waves to gamma rays.

A slideshow and a short multiple-choice quiz on the basic concepts and vocabulary of magnetism.

An infograph to explore threshold 2 when the stars lite up.

An introductory lesson describing the definition of energy, and highlighting different sources of usable energy.

From the Metropolitan Museum of Art, this photo by Alfred Stieglitz of the sculpture "Balzac Toward the Light, Midnight" by the impressionist sculptor Auguste Rodin, is discussed in a brief description accomanied by a large image of the...

View several pictures of ocean life through the eyes of scientists and staff at Woods Hole Oceanography Institute. This particular slideshow highlights how ocean creatures change their colors in order to either hide from or frighten...

This lesson will present how light and motion energy can be used to power machines. It is 4 of 4 in the series titled "Energy: Machines, Motion and Light."

This picture shows the colors in the visible spectrum. Human's eyes can see light in this range but we are unable to see other light such as infra-red and UV without the aid of scientific equipment.

The aurora borealis (also known as the northern lights) is a spectacular light display that can be seen at night in regions near the North Pole (auroras can also be seen near the South Pole). Auroras occur because of charged particles...

Located on Thacher Island, this light station was established in 1771, and was the last founded in the colonia era. The two lighthouses were the first to mark a navigational hazard (Thacher Island); the current lighthouses were...

A twin light station that guided ships into New York Harbor and was the first use of Fresnel lenses in the United States.

An image of the Split Rock Light Station.

An image of the Thomas Point Shoal Light Station.

East Brother Light, near Richmond, California on a stormy evening in March 2013.

An image of ""From Darkness, the Light". Allegory of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences", created by Johann Ender in 1831 (Oil on canvas, 350 x 250 cm).