Yeric's at it again! He's back with a new video about light—available in both English and Spanish. Join Yeric as you get some background and then learn how to make a solar oven!

This week’s Distance Learning offerings are focusing on optics, light, and the electromagnetic spectrum.

You’ve probably seen a rainbow outside before, and this week, we’re learning why we see rainbows in the sky and challenging you to find as many rainbow-makers as you can!

For New Hampshire’s April school vacation week, when none of us is actually going anywhere, we decided to focus on things we could do if we did have some sort of wild vacation adventure and ended up on a deserted island.

On Tuesday, we learned how to use the sun’s energy to cook our lunch. Today, we’ll see how we can use to sun to make water drinkable. Note that since we aren’t actually on a deserted island surrounded be sea water, we need to make our own for this activity. Use of a stove is needed to boil water—please use adult supervision for this!

Learn how different colors interact with heat in this simple solar-powered activity!

This activity is geared toward elementary-level learners, but can easily scale up or down depending on existing science knowledge. Younger children may appreciate performing the experiment with less emphasis on the background and concluding information, while older students may choose to supplement this lesson with in-depth research on wavelengths and energy.