Product Type: Lesson Plan/Activity
Audience: Educators, Informal Education
Grade Levels: 9-12
Publication Year: 2000
Product Number: EG-2000-10-64-MSFC
Subjects: Physical Science
Students experiment with polarizing filters and a light source to discover that when the filters' planes of polarization are 90-degree angles in relation to each other, they will block out light.
Polarization of Light [114KB PDF file]
This activity is part of the Optics Educator Guide.