Students using a spectroscope view different substances when heated with electricity.

Young scholars explain polarization vision and why some animals have it while others do not. They examine the reasons why it would be helpful for marine organisms to have polarized light.

This site discusses color and how it works in art, science, and the mind. Explore the many ways that color affects us.

An incredibly extensive, but somewhat idiosyncratic, explanation of color theories.

You'll find a wealth of resources at this site dedicated to color! Easy-to-read discussions can be found on topics ranging from the science of light to complementary colors and the color wheel. All special terms are highlighted and...

Six activities sure to engage students of any age! Interactive games and puzzles let you play with color and create your own unique designs!

This site was created by an art teacher and has several fun lesson plans that could be adapted to different grade levels. The activities are about color wheels, color theory, tints and shades, and several other subjects.

Students are presented with a challenge question concerning color blindness and asked to use engineering principles to design devices to help people who are color blind. Using the legacy cycle as a model, this unit is comprised of five...

A totally cool concept! Choose your base color, your scheme (monochromatic, etc.) and the computer will show you what other colors go with it! There are even settings for various levels of color-blindness. A really cool art tool!!

Site explores colors and how they are formed. Provides three different activities to explore color.

Add color to black and white photograph using this Paint Shop Pro lesson plan. Explore the colorize functions to make your pictures and graphics unique.

A brief explanation of the visible color wheel.

Students are introduced to an engineering challenge in which they are given a job assignment to separate three types of apples. However, they are unable to see the color differences between the apples, and as a result, they must think as...

An in-depth instructional page on color that defines a variety of terms related to color.

Visible light waves are the only electromagnetic waves we can see. We see these waves as the colors of the rainbow. Each color has a different wavelength. Red has the longest wavelength and violet has the shortest wavelength. When all...

Read about the visible light spectrum and learn the frequencies and wavelengths for each of the primary and secondary colors.

The behavior of light waves is introduced and discussed. Also, polarization, color, diffraction, and interference are introduced and discussed thoroughly as supporting evidence of the wave nature of light.

Colm Kelleher describes the physics behind colors- why the colors we see are related to the period of motion and the frequency of waves. [3:09]

Exploration of the full spectrum of color choices available to artists past and present.

York University provides an index page to several other pages on the topic of color and color vision. The pages are part of an online "book." Many graphics and explanations.

This site from Georgia State University discusses the location of visible light on the electromagnetic spectrum. Includes the wavelength values for various colors of light within the visible light spectrum.

Several pages with an interesting discussion of the visible light spectrum and atomic absorption and emission line spectrum. Features excellent graphics, thorough and understandable discussion, and many interactive Java applets.

This resource provides information on the different wavelengths that make up the electromagnetic spectrum. Also contains information on waves and color.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Students learn what an electromagnetic wave is, gain a feel for the main parts of the spectrum, and work on problems involving basic properties of electromagnetic...