Let’s start with something that just about anyone could do. Here are my materials. (I actually hate when a lab report lists materials – so I don’t know why I am doing it.)
Beer bottles of different colors. Preferably at least one of green, brown and clear. Oh, you will have to remove the beer from the bottles. Maybe you could figure out a way to accomplish this task.
Ultraviolet light. If you don’t have one, you could use the Sun. I used one of these UV LED lights.
Ultraviolet sensitive beads. These are little plastic beads that change color when exposed to UV light.
Paper. A flat surface. A notebook. A pencil. A stopwatch. A computer with internet access. A camera.
OK, the experiment is pretty simple. Put some beads in each bottle and let the light shine through. If the beads change color, the UV light passes through the bottle. Simple, right?
Here is what that looks like. Oh, I had cut off the bottom of my bottles in order to use them in another experiment.