The True Colors: Shining Through
Physics and Astronomy
Charlotte Wagovich
- Grade:
- 6
- Teacher:
- CJ San Julian
Discovering how different types of light bulbs affect the spectrum of colors projected through a prism.
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You designed a thoughtful experiment exploring how different light sources produce different color spectra through a prism. Your light box construction, repeated trials, and detailed measurements showed strong effort and careful experimentation. The data clearly supported your conclusion that incandescent light produces a continuous spectrum while fluorescent and LED lights show gaps, and your interpretation connected well to your observations.
What stood out most was your curiosity about a natural phenomenon and your ability to build your own system to investigate it. You moved beyond observation and tried to understand why light behaves differently depending on its source, which reflects strong scientific thinking.