A Student-Centered Interactive Color Quiz（以互动的颜色测试）.pdfVIP

A Student-Centered Interactive Color Quiz Edward P. Wyrembeck, Howards Grove High School, Howards Grove, WI his year I wanted to get my conceptual have demonstrated the additive properties of color, I Tphysics students more actively involved in turn off two of the overheads, remove the black film their study of color addition and subtraction, bag from the last overhead, and overlap colored filters so I decided to develop an interactive color quiz that I of the subtractive primaries (cyan, magenta, and yel- could use throughout the unit. I use the electron os- low) to demonstrate color mixing by subtraction. cillator model to explain the emission, reflection, and These demonstrations provide the students with the absorption of light at the atomic level. My quiz is an basic rules of color addition and subtraction.2 extension of an activity I read about in The Physics Teacher on an “Interactive Spectra Demonstration.”1 The Additive Color Quiz It requires only some spray-painted tennis balls (red, The next day in class I begin to probe my students’ green, and blue) and whatever color of clothing the conceptual understanding of color by quizzing them students wear to class. with colored tennis balls. I usually start by explaining I begin my students’ exploration of color by that the tennis balls simulate low- (red) and high- demonstrating the additive properties of light using (blue) frequency visible light photons, and I will sim- three overhead projectors to project and add the pri- ulate a source of light capable of emitting these differ- mary and complementary colors of light onto a white ent photons/colors. I begin the quiz with color addi- screen. I cover each overh