Remote access laboratory in Physics : “enlightening the Light”

Abstract

"We developed a Remote Access Laboratory on Physics for middle school pupils. The selected area was optics and the question addressed was: how colours shown by objects are influenced by incident light? Our objects were a red apple, a lemon and two billiards balls (one black and another white). We directed to the objects three lamps, each one with a filter of a primary colour (red, green and blue). These lamps could be, at a distance, individually or simultaneously switched on. This site contains instructions, a link to the remote laboratory, some educational materials (only in Portuguese, for the time being), and two videos: one showing the physical laboratory and the other teaching how to manipulate the laboratory."