5
Periodic
Table
of the Elements
of the Elements
Heat
Therapy
Pad
Slinky
Transparent
Cups and
Plasticware
Liquid Crystal Sheet
Wafer
and Lens
Transparencies
Sheet Polarizers
Happy/
Unhappy balls
Unhappy balls
Theme
Packets
OPTICS
SUITCASE
“OPTICS Suitcase”
for Middle School Outreach
for Middle School Outreach
·Almost everything fits in a plastic suitcase.
·Many items are reusable: the heating pad, the slinky, sheets of plastic polarizer material, the glass lens, the set of 7 overhead transparencies, etc.
·Some items are meant to be given
away: the Periodic Table of the Elements.
away: the Periodic Table of the Elements.
·225 “take-home theme packets” are included for ~3, twenty-five student classrooms.
Larger groups can be accommodated
with planning.
·A user guide explains how to do a 40 minute demo.