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The Eye and Color Images

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students study the eye. In this biology lesson plan, students observe and experiment with visual images as they learn about the basic parts of the eye. Students also demonstrate how an image is projected upon the retinal network.
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Light Week

For Teachers 1st
First graders experiment with prisms to explore sequence of colors of light created.
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Refraction B2—When is Light Reflected Internally?

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Physics is phun in this instructional activity. Young physicists use a lightbox to test how and where light is refracted and reflected as it travels through transparent materials. Angles of incidence and refraction, sine of both...
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Perkins School for the Blind

I See Something Red

For Teachers K - 6th
For learners with low vision, the ability to identify colors is an important skill that will help them identify people and places. Groups of brightly colored objects are placed around the room. The child is then given a colored paper and...
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Teach Engineering

What Does Light See?

For Teachers 10th - 12th
The second installment of a seven-part series focuses on the refraction of light and how it affects the colors we see. Learners consider how this concept connects to biosensors for cancer detection.
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Royal Society of Chemistry

Colour—Gifted and Talented Chemistry

For Teachers 6th - 12th Standards
Add a splash of color to your chemistry class! Science scholars discover the principles behind color through a wide variety of hands-on activities. Lessons include dyes, chromatography, and flame tests.
Interactive
McGraw Hill

Stellar Spectroscopy Interactive

For Students 9th - Higher Ed
Stars seem to be a far away mystery... but it turns out we know much more about stars than one would think! An engaging lesson shows learners how to read a light spectrum to determine the temperature and chemical makeup of a star....
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The Sun's Energy

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders examine how the sun's energy arrives as light with a range of wavelengths. They discuss the characteristics of light, examine the color of light using a spectroscope, and conduct an experiment using water and thermometers....
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Weather Cut and Paste

For Students K - 1st
A charming learning exercise for your young artists, they color and cut out four pictures of different types of weather and then paste them next to a picture of a child who is dressed for that type of weather. This learning exercise...
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Exploration of Light

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders observe the video, Exploring Light and Color. They access a website to create their own light show. They conduct lab experiments to investigate refraction, reflection,and other light-related topics.
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The Nature of Light

For Students 6th - 8th
In this science instructional activity, students answer questions that are related to the concept of color and they discover what color shirts are being worn by reading the clues.
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Center Science Education

Looking Into Surface Albedo

For Teachers 5th - 10th
How does the color of a surface affect the heating of the earth? Middle school science classes experiment with color and surface albedo to determine the relationship. The website has tabs for an overview, teacher's instructions,...
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Perkins School for the Blind

Integrated Skills - Laundry

For Teachers 6th - 12th
I hate doing laundry, even if it is an independent living skill that requires me to count money, follow a sequence, and sort clothing by color. Learners with multiple disabilities discuss what laundry is, why they need to do it, and how...
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Create a Music Carnival

For Teachers 2nd
This outstanding lesson will encourage your students to combine their knowledge of rhythm, pitch, tone and color with their imaginations to create original compositions about animals. They create a music carnival to "Peter and the Wolf"...
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NASA

Things Are Not Always What They Seem

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Science is magic that works. Magical color-changing beads and a coffee can that follows voice commands are just two examples of magic tricks that rely on science. After completing a hands-on activity and an experiment investigating the...
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Chlorophyll And The Color Of Light

For Students 5th - 8th
For this biology and math worksheet, students view a graph of percentage of light reflected by chlorophyll and compose answers to questions on a separate piece of paper. This worksheet would be a fine homework assignment.
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Traffic Light Tag

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students practice moving at slow and fast speeds. They are given a red, yellow and green ball, each representing its corresponding traffic light. When tagged, that student must then move at the speed associated with the color ball that...
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Which Colored Filter Will Decode a Secret Message?

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students investigate how to create secrete messages through filters. They view pictures with red and green filters and discuss what they observe. They select the color filter that works best to read secret messages. They view pictures...
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Color Recognition

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students envision how space observatories make use of monochromatic filters to collect data on the color of objects in space. They see the actual colors of objects when they are in monochromatic light.
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The Effects of Light and Temperature on the Growth and Development of Plants

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students investigate the effects of light and temperature on plant growth and development. In this plant growth lesson plan, students use radish plants and cover them with different shades of green and red transparencies and observe...
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Using Bubbles to Learn about Light Interference

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explain the wave properties of light.
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Light and Our World

For Students 5th - 8th
In this science worksheet, students solve a variety of curriculum related puzzles. They also practice basic mental math skills using four operations. The concept of light and color are explored and how it interacts with different objects.
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Understanding Light: Lesson 2 - The Electromagnetic Spectrum

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students investigate the Electromagnetic Spectrum and realize there is energy beyond visible light. They identify parts of the EM Spectrum.
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Energy

For Students 4th - 5th
In this science worksheet, students learn about renewable, non-renewable and sustainable energy and examine alternative fuel sources by studying the information on these 8 pages. Students complete 20 questions about energy. These pages...

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