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Interactive
Physics Classroom

Color Pigments

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Objects contain pigments that selectively absorb a wavelength of light, and our eyes only observe a very small range of these wavelengths. Scholars apply these two facts to three different activities. They identify the pigment in an...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Using Plant Pigments to Link a Suspect to a Crime

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students use chromatography to separate plant pigments collected from a fictitious crime scene and suspects. They compare the Rf values of the plant pigments to determine whether the plant pigments found on any of the suspects match the...
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Teach Engineering

DNA Forensics and Color Pigments

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Use food coloring in electrophoresis. The last segment in a four-part series mimics DNA fingerprinting by using chromatography. Teams conduct chromatography on food coloring to find colors that use similar pigmentation in their makeup.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Investigating Plant Pigments: A Guided Inquiry Laboratory Experiment

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students participate in a three-part lab in which they investigate plant pigments. Part I is designed to teach basic laboratory techniques of column chromatography, in Part II students design an experiment to separate the components of a...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Chromatography of photosynthetic pigments

For Teachers 11th - Higher Ed
Young scholars explore the technique of chromatography to separate compounds in a mixture. In small groups, they separate by paper chromatography and identify the major and accessory photosynthetic...
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Curated OER

Pigment Puzzles

For Teachers 5th - 7th
A hands-on chromatography lesson brings science to the magic of changing autumn leaves. After collecting plant samples, young scientists use paper strips, two liquids, and coffee filters to separate the pigments, then match their print...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Simplified Botany--Leaf Chromatography

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students investigate the different pigments contained in green leaves by completing an experiment that strips away the chlorophyll and separates the pigments left behind.
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Sunlight Cal-Tech

Chromatography of Plant Pigments

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Through a hands-on activity, an acetone-spinach solution is pre-made and learners use this solution to separate the pigments found in spinach using chromatography. The comprehensive resource includes an analysis and conclusion questions.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Using Plant Pigments as Natural Dyes

For Teachers 1st - 7th
Learners create friendship bracelets and quilt squares. In this plant lesson student dye their own string and cotton material with plant pigments. Students use the naturally dyed materials to create the friendship bracelets and quilt...
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Lab Resource
Royal Society of Chemistry

Lead Compounds: Precipitation Reactions and Pigments—Microscale Chemistry

For Teachers 9th - Higher Ed Standards
Colorful lead compounds never fail to impress! Solubility scholars examine a series of double replacement reactions involving lead nitrate and record their observations. The second part of the experiment illustrates the differences...
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Lesson Plan
Alabama Wildlife Federation

Colors to Dye for!

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Nature provides a rainbow of colors at one's fingertips. A hands-on activity uses natural plant materials to create all-natural dyes. Plants range from fruits and vegetables to flowers and greens. After extracting the pigments, eager...
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Activity
Exploratorium

The Three Little Pig(ments)

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Photocopy single-color images onto acetate transparencies and either demonstrate or have your class experience the combination of colors to produce images. Children will learn that cyan, magenta, yellow, and black combine to make all of...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Plant Pigment Chemistry

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students discover the roles of pigments present in leaves. They extract and isolate pigments present in autumn leaves using a thin layer chromatography. Very nice lesson and lab!
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Science: Pigments and Photosynthesis

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students explore the process of photosynthesis by identifying chloroplasts and chlorophyll pigments. In a demonstration, they observe a demonstration connecting pigments with sunlight conversion into energy. Using paper chromatography,...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Paper Chromatography-Chemical and Mechanical

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students perform paper chromatography to determine pigments in plants. In this paper chromatography lesson plan, students isolate leaf pigments, prepare a chromatogram and place their chromatogram in a solvent to separate the pigments....
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Paper Chromatography

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers investigate the pigments in Magic Markers using chromatography. In this paper chromatography lesson plan, students use absorbent paper and mark the strip with a Magic Marker. They place the strip in a solvent and observe...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Chromatography

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students use chromatography to separate substances in Kool-Aid, Crayola markers and leaves. In this chromatography lesson plan, students make chromatograms to separate substances in a mixture through absorption. Students find the Rf...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Plant Pigments

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students investigate the components of chlorophyll. They use paper chromatography to separate the many pigments of chlorophyll from one another.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Thin Layer Chromatography (TLC) Separation of Plant Pigments - Chlorophyll, Carotene

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Young scholars use TLC separations to identify various substances.  In this chlorophyll lesson students separate pigments found in different plants.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Chromotography

For Students 6th - 8th
In this chromatography worksheet, students are given markers, filter paper and a solvent to separate the pigments found in each marker. Students create a chromatogram for each marker.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Pigment Plucking

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students examine pigments found in different fruits and vegetables and practice the processes for extracting the pigments. Pigments are used to create artwork and a class PowerPoint presentation is made on the different types of plant...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Flower Pigments

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers experiment with Thin Layer Chromatography to separate pigments found in flower petals.
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Lesson Plan
Alabama Wildlife Federation

Leaf Chromatography

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Pigmentation of leaves is important in plant processes. Scholars use chromatography to create a better picture of the pigmentation in an assortment of leaves. They share their results to make comparisons between different plant species.
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PPT
Mr. E. Science

Light

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
Where does bad light end up? In a prism! The presentation covers light, mirrors, lenses, and the structure of the eye. It also provides explanations of reflection, refraction, concave and convex mirrors and lenses, and a comparison of...

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