The Fibre Optic Cable Class

With this activity students will uunderstand the basic concepts of light and fibre optics, and how they are used in everydaylife communication and in astronomy (specifically, a better understanding of SDSS and spectrography). Students will be guided throught a set of activities: they will be involeved in a hands-on acitivty to learn bascis properties of light, they will analyse information gathered by the Sloan Digital Sky and finally they will be introduced in the citizen science project Galaxy Zoo.