The mission of MITS is to promote the teaching of science, mathematics, and technology through participatory, inquiry based methods. Each issue of SIE provides science content, hands-on activities, and ideas for extensions and integrations. This issue approaches the concept of light through the study of color. Tips for teachers, presented in a column titled Trade Secrets, offers a darkroom procedure for making simple holographs. In the Know section contains background information about light and color, optics and vision, and the visible light spectrum.
Additional activities investigate vegetable dyes, kaleidoscopes, and refraction.
Each activity contains a summary of learning objectives, a list of required materials, and an illustrated procedure. Reproducible student worksheets, book reviews, and an annotated resource list of free or inexpensive materials are also included. ENC does NOT distribute this resource.