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Design Your Own Experiment

How to Select a Topic Relating to this Concept

There are many aspects of the properties of light you can study, either as a project or as an experiment. One aspect you may want to study might be reflection. If you choose reflection, one question might be: How can I see into a puddle past my reflection? Check the For More Information section for this topic, and talk with a teacher or with a librarian before finalizing your choice.

Steps in the Scientific Method

To do an original experiment, you need to plan carefully and think things through. Otherwise, you might not be sure what question you're answering, what you are or should be measuring, or what your findings prove or disprove.

Here are the steps in designing an experiment:

• State the purpose of—and the underlying question behind—the experiment you propose to do.
• Recognize the

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1. Introduction
2. Experiments with a shutter
3. Making waves
4. It glows in the dark
5. Project 1 - Looking for the Glow: Which objects glow under black light?
6. Project 2 - Refraction and Defraction: Making a rainbow
7. Design Your Own Experiment