Activity Titles
Magic Wand
Activity Objective: To demonstrate, through the property of persistence
of vision, how an image falling on a CCD array is divided into individual
pieces.
Application: Astronomy, Physical Science, Technology Education
Persistence of Vision Tube
Activity Objective: To demonstrate how individual pieces of data combine to
produce complete images.
Application: Astronomy, Physical Science, Technology Education
Color Recognition
Activity Objective: To show how space observatories make use of monochromatic
filters to collect data on the color of objects in space.
Application: Art, Astronomy, Physical Science, Technology Education
Colored Shadows
Activity Objective: To demonstrate how three colored lights can be
combined to
produce a wide range of secondary colors.
Application: Art, Astronomy, Physical Science, Technology Education
Binary Numbers
Activity Objective: To use the binary number system to transmit data as
astronomical
spacecraft do to Earth.
Application: Astronomy, Mathematics, Technology Education
Paint By The Numbers
Activity Objective: To simulate how light collected from a space object
converts into
binary data and reconverts into an image of the object.
Application: Art, Astronomy, Mathematics, Technology Education
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