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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Exploring Light: Absorb, Reflect, Transmit or Refract?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In a hands-on way, students explore light's properties of absorption, reflection, transmission and refraction through various experimental stations within the classroom. To understand absorption, reflection and transmission, they shine...
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Utah Education Network

Uen: Enlightening Explorations, Part Iii

For Teachers 6th
This instructional activity contains the following labs: Rainbows, Refraction with Prisms, and What Color Is It? Students will study light by reading various nonfiction texts and viewing a video instructional activity. Then students will...
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Georgia State University

Georgia State University: Hyper Physics: Atmospheric Optics Concepts

For Students 9th - 10th
This physics department site features an indexing page for a variety of pages pertaining to atmospheric optics. Topics include rainbows, halos, auroras, mirages, star twinkling, sunsets, green flashes, coronas, and more. Excellent...
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University of Colorado

University of Colorado: Ph Et Interactive Simulations: Color Vision

For Students 9th - 10th
An interactive simulation that teaches about photons, monochromatic light, white light, and rainbows through changing wavelengths, beams, filters, and color combinations. This simulation can either be downloaded or played online and...
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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.
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Curated OER

Science Kids: Science Images: Beautiful Rainbow

For Students 9th - 10th
A beautiful rainbow stretches across the sky after a rain shower on a cloudy day in Mannheim, Germany.
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Curated OER

Science Kids: Science Images: Double Rainbow

For Students 9th - 10th
A magnificent double rainbow is caught on camera in this photo taken during a light shower on the Otago Peninsula in New Zealand.
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Other

The Rainbow Family: Defining Clergy

For Students 3rd - 8th
Simplistic site from The Rainbow Family defining "clergy" and the roles they carry out. A good place to start for a quick overview.
Interactive
Math Science Nucleus

Math/science Nucleus: Light Magic

For Students Pre-K - 1st
This animation discusses light and the properties of light in a storybook format. The animations cover the colors of the rainbow (ROYGBIV) along with prisms, light waves, reflection, and refraction.
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University of Illinois

University of Illinois Urbana Champaign: Light and Optics

For Students 9th - 10th
Rainbows and sunsets are called "atmospheric optics". They can be caused by light being absorbed, reflected, scattered, refracted, or diffracted by particles in the atmosphere. Learn all about different atmospheric optics along with...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Song Inspired Color Poetry

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this lesson plan students listen to the songs "Over the Rainbow," sung by Israel Kamakawiwo'ole and "Color Me Blind," sung by Extreme and read an excerpt from the book Hailstones and Halibut Bones by Mary O'Neill. Then students work...
Interactive
South Carolina Educational Television

Know It All Media: Light and Color

For Students 3rd - 8th
Why do we see certain colors? This interactive animation demonstrates the concept of the visible spectrum, and how we see the different colors of the rainbow.
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Read Works

Read Works: Wild Weather

For Teachers 2nd Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read about different types of March weather including: clouds, blizzards, thunder, lightning, and rainbows. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in cause and effect.
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Curated OER

National Park Service: Devils Postpile National Monument

For Students Pre-K - 1st
National Park Services offers a geological curiosity with Devils Postpile National Monument in Mammoth Lakes, California. Columnar basalt, Rainbow Falls, and Reds Meadow Valley are all part of this wonder just west of the crest of the...
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Curated OER

National Park Service: Devils Postpile National Monument

For Students Pre-K - 1st
National Park Services offers a geological curiosity with Devils Postpile National Monument in Mammoth Lakes, California. Columnar basalt, Rainbow Falls, and Reds Meadow Valley are all part of this wonder just west of the crest of the...
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Other

Atmospheric Optics

For Students 9th - 10th
Instead of just ooohing and aaahing over that beautiful sunset, impress your loved ones with an insightful and informed explanation of just what makes sunsets so interesting, and they will oooh and aaah at you too! At this site, you'll...
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Other

Fishbase: Elagatis Bipinnulata (Hawaiian Salmon)

For Students 9th - 10th
Fishbase provides extensive information on the Elagatis bipinnulata/ Hawaiian Salmon/ Rainbow Runner, which is found worldwide in marine waters, as well as a nice illustration of the species.
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McREL International

Mc Rel: Whelmer #64 Learning Activity: Liquid Rainbow

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
An easy to do activity that investigates density and solubility. The activity is presented in lesson plan format that meets NSES standards.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Acid (And Base) Rainbows

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students are introduced to the differences between acids and bases and how to use indicators, such as pH paper and red cabbage juice, to distinguish between them.
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Read Works

Read Works: April Showers

For Teachers 2nd
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about rain, thunderstorms, and rainbows in the spring. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Curated OER

Web Gallery of Art: Landscape With Rainbow, Henley on Thames

For Students 11th - 12th
An image of "Landscape with Rainbow, Henley-on-Thames", created by Jan Siberechts, c. 1690 (Oil on canvas, 82,5 x 103 cm).
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Curated OER

Web Gallery of Art: Landscape With Rainbow

For Students 11th - 12th
An image of "Landscape with Rainbow", created by Joseph Wright, c. 1795 (Oil on canvas, 81 x 107 cm).
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Open Library of the Internet Archive

Open Library: The Tin Woodman of Oz

For Students 9th - 10th
This ebook version of L. Frank Baum's The Tin Woodman Of Oz: A Faithful Story Of The Astonishing Adventure Undertaken By The Tin Woodman, Assisted By Woot The Wanderer, The Scarecrow Of Oz, And Polychrome, The Rainbow's Daughter has been...
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Wikimedia

Wikipedia: History of the Kenya African National Union

For Students 9th - 10th
Read about the history of the political party of Kenya, the Kenya African National Union. The article provides information from its incarnation in 1960 to its defeat by the National Rainbow Coalition in 2002, ending 40 years of rule.

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