Experiment – Italian Workshop
Luminous Cows Group
Experiment for pre-school
- kaleidoscope
 Rationale and core concepts: light, reflections, colours. Active
learning, constructivism, discovery learning.
 Description of the activites in the frame of a more general path:
to make a kaleidoscope Kaleidoscope
 Target group: 4-6 year old
 Materials:
 Metallic silver cardboard
 Rolls of toilet paper
 Clean film
 Colorful pieces of paper
 Circle of foam or plain cardboard
 Setting of the class: Smaller groups
 Space and time: divide the work into 2 days for ~ 20 min at
each period, space: tablesize.
What to do at home
 Play with fingerpaint to mix and try different colours
 Play with a glassbowl of water, putting objects in it to
observe refraction
 Play with mirros to understand reflection and angles
 Play with light to understand light and shadow (ex. paint
a portrait of their own shadow)
Experiment for elementary school
 Rationale and core concepts: light, refractions, colours. Active
learning, constructivism, discovery learning.
 Description of the activites in the frame of a more general path:
to discover what happens looking through a cylinder filled with
liquid.
 Target group: 6-12 year old
Cylinder with fluid
Cylinder with fluid
Cylinder with fluid
Materials
• Colour filters
• Tube with fluid inside
• Paper with QUALITY
CHOICE (or any other
symatric and asymatric
word)
Experiment
Let chidern discover what
causes the effect and think
about what really happens.
For example different colors
or orientation of cylinder.
Suggestions for parents
• Writing your name in the mirror.
This will give childern a feeling for the mirror and what
happens.
Childern are only allowed to look in the mirror and they
can’t see there hands directly.
Suggestions for parents
• Mirrortunnel
Childern can look
in one mirror
directly in front
of an other
mirror. They will
see a tunnel of
mirrors.