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American Chemical Society

Inquiry in Action: Racing M&m Colors

For Teachers 9th - 10th
An activity where students can experiment with whether different colors of M&Ms dissolve faster in water versus others. This lab includes a student worksheet and teacher instructions.
Activity
American Chemical Society

Inquiry in Action: Colors Collide or Combine

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Do M&Ms colors combine or collide when they are put together on a plate of water? This lab activity will have students investigating what happens when M&Ms get wet.
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: "Stained Glass Glue"

For Students 9th - 10th
In the activity, "Stained Glass Glue," students use common everyday materials to use inquiry when they mix different substances and observe the unusual result of mixing water colors, milk and common dishwashing detergent.
Primary
University of Florida

Baldwin Library: Twelve Times One: Illustrations of Child Life by Mary Lathbury

For Students 1st - 5th
This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book Twelve Times One: Illustrations of Child Life by Mary A. Lathbury (1888), a book of poetry with illustrations designed with water colors.
Activity
Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Are You in Hot Water? Use Solar Energy to Heat Your Own Water

For Students Pre-K - 1st
The goal of this science fair project is to build batch solar collectors from different colors of plastic bags and see which collector is the most efficient in heating water.
Unit Plan
Can Teach

Can Teach: Songs and Poems

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
This site features an extensive list of poems and songs for every event during the school year. Explore the seasons, colors, holidays, and more.
Website
NASA

Nasa: What Is Ocean Color?

For Students 3rd - 8th
This site from NASA explains the meaning behind the different colors of the oceans. Gives information as to the role of phytoplankton in the color of the oceans and affects of the carbon cycle on the oceans.
Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Rainbow Milk

For Teachers K - 1st
This activity is designed for students to learn that primary colors mixed together make secondary colors. They will also experiment with how fat and soap molecules repel each other in water.
Activity
Science Made Simple

Science Made Simple: Why Leaves Change Color

For Students 3rd - 8th
This is a site that offers answers to some often hard to answer questions such as why do leaves change colors. Provides an easy to understand answer to the question along with a section that students can read on their own, a puzzle,...
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EL Education

El Education: Life in a Vernal Pool Field Guide

For Teachers 6th - 8th
After researching and observing life in a local vernal pool, students write and illustrate a field guide including digital photographs and original water colors.
Activity
Optical Society

Optical Society of America: Optics for Kids: Release the Rainbow

For Students 3rd - 5th
A simple activity to demonstrate how light separates into colors when it passes through water acting as a prism.
Activity
Optical Society

Optical Society of America: Optics for Kids: Black Is Black or Is It?

For Students Pre-K - 1st
An experiment with a coffee filter and a marker to see what happens when water touches a black dot, or any other color. With links to several scientific, academic articles that explain what is happening.
Interactive
Roy the Zebra

Roy the Zebra: Reading Games: High Frequency Words: Tom's Color Game

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Help Tom the zebra get ready for bed in this interactive game. Drag each color word next to the box with the matching color and give Tom one item he needs for bedtime. After giving him socks, a blanket, hay, and a glass of water, watch...
Lesson Plan
BioEd Online

Bio Ed Online: Rainbow in the Room

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students investigate the properties of visible light and the sequence of colors in the spectrum using light shone through water and prisms. The lesson and accompanying slideshow can both be downloaded.
Lesson Plan
Children's Museum

The Children's Museum of Indianapolis: Color Changing Milk

For Students K - 1st
Learners observe a molecular dance of bursting colors through exploring states of matter and learning that materials can be characterize by how they respond to water.
Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Heat Transfer

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students explore how different colors absorb or reflect heat using a black can of water, a white can of water, and a plain can of water.
Activity
Physics Central

Physics Central: Physics in Your Glass: Racing Molecules

For Students 6th - 8th
An easy experiment for demonstrating and exploring molecule movement requiring common household items: two glasses, two dark colors of food coloring, and warm and cold water. A few variations to the experiment will have students using...
Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Investigating Chromatography: Selecting Variables

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
For this lab, students will demonstrate observation skills as they design an experiment to separate colors of various water-based pens in order to learn about mixtures and solutions. Students will determine a variable to test and...
Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: All That Glitters

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This Ocean Explorer lesson plan (PDF) explores the questions: What colors, if any, are visible down in the deep sea? What is bioluminescence? Students will learn about white light (visible light), the quantity and quality of light as...
Activity
Center of Science and Industry

Cosi Columbus: Coffee Filter Rainbows

For Students 3rd - 8th
Science experiment that demonstrates chromotography. Includes full list of materials, procedures, and scientific explanation of what happens with different colors when they are soaked with water.
Activity
Exploratorium

Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Rotating Light

For Students 9th - 10th
An experiment where polarized light is shone into a solution of sugared water, causing each of the colors in white light to change direction in varying amounts.
Activity
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Bill Nye Demonstration: Chemistry of Color

For Students 9th - 10th
Ever wonder why some colors dissolve in water and others don't? Watch this video to learn why. [2:16]
Activity
PBS

Pbs Teachers: Paper Towel Chromatography Experiment

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Observe the separation of colors derived from black marker ink by wicking water through a marker line on a paper towel.
Graphic
Curated OER

Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Maps Etc: Physical Europe, 1916

For Students 9th - 10th
A physical map of Europe from 1916 showing color-coded elevations and water depths for the area extending from Iceland to the Ural Mountains in Russia Proper, and the Arctic Circle to the Mediterranean Sea. Land elevation colors range...

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