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Serc: Investigating White Light: What Colors Make Up White Light? ActivitySerc: Investigating White Light: What Colors Make Up White Light? Activity
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
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Serc: Investigating White Light: What Colors Make Up White Light?

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Two different hands-on activities that explore white light and the colors that make it up. In one activity students will create white light by using a color wheel. In the other activity students discover the colors that make white light by using flashlights and colored plastic film. Students will have a discussion at the end of the lesson to wrap up both activities.

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lab experiment, colors of light

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  • Knovation Readability Score: 3 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)

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