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Kids learn how fiber optics work with a dramatic total internal reflection experiment using a fish tank, water, and a laser pointer.

How Fiber Optics Work: Total Internal Reflection

This optics-based science fair project idea teaches kids about real and virtual images with a mind-bending candle illusion inspired by Pepper's Ghost.

The Candle Illusion: Virtual Images

Learn how to make a periscope with this cool engineering science fair project idea, and learn about optics to learn how a periscope works.

How to Make a Periscope

This science fair project idea explores whether a person's ability to see under very dim lighting conditions diminishes with age.

Does Peoples' Ability to Use "Night Vision" Diminish With Age?

Can you win a staring contest? Would your performance be influenced by your eyesight? Find out in this science fair project idea!

Does Eyesight Influence Staring Contest Performance?

Did you ever think you could make colors disappear right before your eyes? This science experiment is just like a magic trick: now you see it, now you don&#39;t!

Spinning Science: Disappearing Color!

This science fair project idea studies  which brand of wintergreen candy produces the most sparks in the dark.

Which Wintergreen Candy Sparks the Brightest in the Dark?

Find out whether optical mice are useful on all surfaces or if there are drawbacks to this supposedly superior solution to the traditional roller-ball mouse.

The Drawbacks of an Optical Mouse

This science fair project idea explores whether white light can be separated into different colors.

Can White Light Be Separated?

What happens when colored beams of light mix? You might be surprised.

Adding Colors: An Optical Experiment

Believe it or not, images that are cast upon your eye's light-sensitive screen (called the retina) are upside down. Here's a fun, fast experiment to prove it!

Make a Pinhole Projector!

You don't need to wait for rain to see a rainbow. Make one yourself, and teach your child about light and weather in the process.

Make Your Own Rainbow

What happens when eyes see something that the brain knows cannot be true? In this science activity, the brain has to "fudge" it when interpreting what you see.

Make a Mind-Bending Illusion!

The objective of this science fair project is to determine whether there are gender differences when boys and girls view optical illusions.

Seeing Different Images in Optical Illusions! Is It a Boy or Girl Thing?

What is a compound microscope? Kids find out by making one of their own in this cool science fair project.

What Is a Compound Microscope?

This science fair project idea  investigates how optical distances change the apparent size of an object as seen through a magnifying lens.

Measuring Magnification

Illustrate the idea of light refraction with this exciting and mystifying experiment.

Disappearing Crystals: A Refraction Experiment

Learn about magnifying glasses, concave lenses and inverted images by sending rays of light through a magnifying glass in this cool science fair project!

Inverted Images

Before digital cameras, before Polaroids, there was the original pinhole camera. Build a pinhole camera and see what true vintage photography looks like!

Build a Pinhole Camera

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