Science Buddies
Science Buddies: How Does Color Affect Heating by Absorption of Light?
Light is an example of an electromagnetic wave. Electromagnetic waves can travel through the vacuum of interstellar space. They do not depend on an external medium-unlike a mechanical wave such as a sound wave which must travel through...
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Miami Dade College: Vic 1000 Visual Comm Lecture Notes Chapters 4 and 5 [Pdf]
These are the lecture notes from a course on visual communication that uses Herbert Zettl's book "Sight Sound Motion." This PowerPoint outline (in PDF format) identifies the key points in chapters 4 and 5. Chapter 4 looks at the...
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Saint Ambrose Barlow: Background Color: Missing Sounds, Year 1 Term2
Given a picture and word with missing letters, students determine what vowel sound is missing and type the word spelled correctly into the box provided.
Ducksters
Ducksters: Practice Science Questions: Easy Light, Sound, Color
Test your knowledge of light, sound, and color with these practice science questions.
Ducksters
Ducksters: Practice Science Answers: Easy Light, Sound, Color
Take this quiz that contains basics questions on light, sound, and color.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Sounding an Alarm on a Growing Epidemic: Blood Sugar Rising
In this short interactive lesson, students learn about the severity and prevalence of diabetes, particularly for people of color.
Starfall
Starfall: Peg the Hen (Short E Listening Practice)
English language learners and beginning readers can listen as they read this wonderfully animated story about Peg the Hen. Excellent drill for learning to pronounce the short E sound with excellent reinforcement of basic vocabulary...
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Arts Connect Ed Playground Make It
Eight fun on-line art activities where young artists get to create, color, and design.
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Espresso Graphics: Html Tips and Tricks
A very complete selection of tutorials on HTML, including tips and tricks on working with sound, adding a webpage counter, using meta tags, web site promotion and much more.
Ministerio de Educación (Spain)
Ministerio De Educacion: Musica Educa (Spanish)
This site is about music in general to be viewed by children as something natural and easily accessible. It contains various interactive activities with sound files and also an application to color.
BBC
Bbc: Bitesize: Gcse: Physics: Reflection and Refraction
All waves will reflect and refract in the right circumstances. The reflection and refraction of light explain how people see images, color and even optical illusions. This tutorial discusses each concept and presents an experiment to try...
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Rainbow Fire
Astronomers can determine the atomic composition of distant stars by measuring the spectrum of light emitted by the star. Sound cool? Well in this project you can do something similar by observing the color of flames when various...
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Reading Keys: Tampa Read's Grade 1 Books Online
This site offers three books written specifically with first grade vocabulary and using progressively more difficult vocabulary from book one to book three. Book one has the vowels printed in color to make the students more aware of...
Countries and Their Cultures
Countries and Their Cultures: Asians of Africa
The Asian population of Africa is a small but significant minority. Whereas there have been Asians, primarily merchants, who lived on the east coast of Africa for hundreds, if not thousands, of years, a great influx of Asians came to...
Discovery Education
Discovery Education: Physical Science
The Discovery Channel provides numerous lesson plans dealing with the physical sciences. Content is organized by grade level, but all lesson plans include suggestions for adaptations for older or younger audiences.
Exploratorium
Exploratorium: Snacks
Exploratorium's snacks aren't edible, but they are good! Use your science skills to discover gravity, learn about biology, do fun experiments.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mit: Inventor of the Week: James T. Russell
This site provides a biography of James T. Russell, inventor of the compact disk, and the basic ideas behind the technology.
Primary Resources
Primary Resources: Chimes
Place your mouse on the various color and hear the chime sound.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: The Bubbly Bb
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart is an introduction to the letter Bb and its sound. Students move Bb words to match the correct pictures, discriminate between Bb words, use the highlighter and pen tool to write, draw,...
Arizona State University
Arizona School of Life Sciences: Bird Finder
Have you ever seen a bird and wondered, "Wow, I wonder what that one might be called?" This bird finder allows students to search for birds based on its color, size, look and sound.
Curated OER
Etc: Roanoke Island, Jamestown, and St. Mary's, 1584 1632
A map of the Chesapeake Bay and Pamlico Sound area showing the initial Virginia Colony established by Sir Walter Raleigh and Queen Elizabeth I in 1584 through the European settlements established by 1634, including Roanoke Island,...
Curated OER
Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Hermann Von Helmholtz
Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz (August 31, 1821 - September 8, 1894) was a German physician and physicist who made significant contributions to several widely varied areas of modern science. In physiology and physiological...