Activity
Science Fun for Everyone

Science Fun: Rainbow in a Glass

For Students 1st - 5th
Use skittles to form a rainbow with this hands-on experiment. Links to video of the experiment.
Lesson Plan
Alabama Department of Archives and History

Alabama Dept. Of Archives and History: Wwi and Alabama's Rainbow Division [Pdf]

For Teachers 6th
This lesson plan contains a PowerPoint and other downloadable resources on World War I and Alabama.
Activity
NASA

Nasa: Genesis Kids: Roping Rainbows

For Students 3rd - 6th
Provides fun activities to do involving sunlight.
Website
Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Australian Broadcasting Corporation: News in Science: Astronomers Seek Life at End of Rainbow

For Students 9th - 10th
From ABC News in Science, Marilyn Head's article explores the possibility entertained by several researchers that the key to discovering life beyond Earth (or habitable planets) is in studying rainbows.
Primary
Open Library of the Internet Archive

Open Library: Rainbow Valley by L. M. Montgomery

For Students 3rd - 8th
This ebook version of L. M. Montgomery's Rainbow Valley has been made available in multiple formats by the Open Library. Editions of the full novel, organized by year of publication, may be accessed here.
eBook
Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: The Rainbow Trail by Zane Grey

For Students 9th - 10th
The full text of the novel The Rainbow Trail by Zane Grey. Register for a free account to unlock annotation tools, printing, and more.
eBook
Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: Rainbow Valley by Lucy Maud Montgomery

For Students 9th - 10th
The full text of the novel Rainbow Valley by Lucy Maud Montgomery. Register for a free account to unlock annotation tools, printing, and more.
eBook
Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: "Rainbow's End" by Rex Ellingwood Beach

For Students 9th - 10th
The full text of the novel Rainbow's End by Rex Ellingwood Beach. Register for a free account to unlock annotation tools, printing, and more.
eBook
Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: "The Rainbow's End" by Kathleen Thompson Norris

For Students 9th - 10th
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.)
Lesson Plan
Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Over the Rainbow

For Teachers K Standards
Students review and conclude our color unit. Students graph their favorite colors.
Graphic
Curated OER

Ncar: About Rainbows

For Students 9th - 10th
Illustrated article about the phenomenon of rainbows.
Graphic
Curated OER

Ncar: About Rainbows

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from the University Corporation of Atmospheric Research provides an illustrated article about the phenomenon of rainbows.
Graphic
Curated OER

Ncar: About Rainbows

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from the University Corporation of Atmospheric Research provides an illustrated article about the phenomenon of rainbows.
Graphic
Curated OER

Ncar: About Rainbows

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from the University Corporation of Atmospheric Research provides an illustrated article about the phenomenon of rainbows.
Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Density Rainbow and the Great Viscosity Race

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Students explore the densities and viscosities of fluids as they create a colorful 'rainbow' using household liquids. While letting the fluids in the rainbow settle, students conduct 'The Great Viscosity Race,' another short experiment...
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.
Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Rainbow Challenge Lab

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this inquiry lab activity, students will attempt to layer 6 different kinds of soda pops in a large test tube using their knowledge of density and other physical properties of liquids.
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.
Interactive
TeacherLED

Teacher Led Interactive Whiteboard Resource Rainbow Multiplication

For Students K - 1st
Students will practice multiplication facts with this interactive white board activity.
Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Graphing the Rainbow

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students are introduced to different ways of displaying visual spectra, including colored "barcode" spectra, like those produced by a diffraction grating, and line plots displaying intensity versus color, or wavelength. Students learn...
Lesson Plan
Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: Rainbow Number Line

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
The teacher will prepare number lines for the students to trace. These number lines can be taped to the desk to be used for number recognition, sequencing, counting, "number forward", and "number backward" activities. An example is...
Handout
PBS

Pbs Nova: Secrets of Lost Empires

For Students 9th - 10th
NOVA ferrets out long-forgotten secrets of architects and engineers of the early civilizations. Content focuses on the trebuchets of medieval Europe, the pharaoh's obelisks of ancient Egypt, the moai statues of Easter Island, the...
Interactive
University of Colorado

University of Colorado: Ph Et Interactive Simulations: Color Vision

For Students 9th - 10th
Make a whole rainbow by mixing red, green, and blue light. Change the wavelength of a monochromatic beam or filter white light. View the light as a solid beam, or see the individual photons.
Handout
Greek Gods

Greek Gods: Demigods & Spirits: Iris

For Students 9th - 10th
Read about the golden-winged Iris who was a goddess of the sea and the sky, the personification of the rainbow, and the female messenger of the gods.

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