There are many types of rainbows, which may not be common knowledge. Learn about the fogbow, the lunar rainbow, and other interesting types, and how they each form.

Find out whatever you wanted to know about rainbows and how they form. Check out the section on folklore regarding rainbows too.

This site features the full text of the novel At the Foot of the Rainbow by Gene Stratton-Porter.

Provides fun activities to do involving sunlight.

The full text of the novel The Rainbow Trail by Zane Grey. Register for a free account to unlock annotation tools, printing, and more.

Text of the short story "The Rainbow's End" by Kathleen Thompson Norris. (Free site registration offers some additional features, e.g., the ability to insert annotations.)

Leaves use sunlight to make food for the plant. Sunlight contains all of the colors of the rainbow, but are all of those colors used by the leaf? Can you find out if some colors of light are more important than others?

Student groups rotate through four stations to examine light energy behavior: refraction, magnification, prisms and polarization. They see how a beam of light is refracted (bent) through various transparent mediums. While learning how a...

Use this interactive tool to explore prisms. Change the height and the shape of the base to see how these affect the prism. There are also several additional options, e.g., making it oblique or transparent. Properties of a prism are...

In this introduction to light energy, students learn about reflection and refraction as they learn that light travels in wave form. Through hands-on activities, they see how prisms, magnifying glasses and polarized lenses work. They also...

This is the text, audio, and video [6:21] of Jesse Jackson's address to the 1984 Democratic National Convention on July 18, 1984, in San Francisco, California.

Primary elementary lesson plan about primary colors. One rainbow activity and one blending activity.

Choose from dozens of simple crafts including activities for the holidays, animal crafts and much more.