- Light always passes straight through transparent material (without changing direction).
- When an object is viewed through a transparent material, the object is seen exactly where it is located.
- Light only reflects from mirrors and shiny objects.
- If students are asked what helps you see? Most will answer glasses, seeing-eye dogs, binoculars, hand lenses, or microscopes, not light.
- White light is pure and colorless light.
- Color is a property of something other than a property of light.
- Sunlight is red, yellow, or orange
- Light travels from our eyes so we can see.
- Light eminates from the object being looked at (not a property of what light is reflected or absorbed).
- A prism or colored filter (piece of gel or plastic) puts color into light when it passes through it.
- Bright light travels further than dim.
- Light travels further at night.
- Light only travels a short way.
- Light stops.