What do you See?

Learn a new word with this experiment. Why is water transparent?

What you need:

  • One or two fish bowls
  • One or two mirrors

Now here’s what to do…

  1. Fill the fish bowls with water (fill them almost to the top)
  2. Place the fish bowls on a table.
  3. Bend down and look into the bowl. What color is the water? Can you see through the water?
  4. Now put a mirror behind each bowl. (Have a friend hold the mirror or prop it up against a wall)
  5. Bend down and look into the fish bowl. What do you see?

What did you learn?

You can see through the bowl because water is transparent. That means we can see through it. When you prop the mirror behind the bowl, you can see yourself!