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Website
Discovery Education

Discovery Education: Hope Depot: Science Fair Central

For Students 9th - 10th
Find advice on project ideas, project steps, presentation tips, classroom activities and more.
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Lesson Plan
Utah Education Network

Uen: Art Smart

For Teachers K - 1st
Students will learn about the symbolic meanings associated with various colors. Then students will design a piece of art with colors that are reflective of their personal emotions.
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Activity
Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation

Guggenheim Museum: Looking at Art: Art Investigations: Color and Mood

For Students 3rd - 8th
How can colors affect the mood of a painting? Take a look at Josef Albers's "Homage to the Square" and respond to prompts asking you to observe the painting's color and how it would be different if the artist used different colors. A...
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Unit Plan
Language Guide

Language Guide: Mandarin Chinese Vocabulary

For Students 3rd - 8th
Useful resource for learning everyday Chinese vocabulary -- roll over each image to hear the correct pronunciation and see how the word is written. Corresponding English section (and other languages) makes this site a useful tool for ESL...
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Graphic
Metropolitan Museum of Art

Metropolitan Museum of Art: Byzantium

For Students 9th - 10th
From the Metropolitan Museum of Art, view an excellent online exhibit of artwork created during the Middle Byzantine period from 843 to 1261. Religious influences during this time were the inspiration for art, and this exhibit provides a...
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Handout
Amethyst Galleries

Amethyst Galleries: Mineral Gallery: The Color of Minerals

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource provides information about the color of minerals.
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Handout
Jewelry Central

Jewelry Central: Diamond

For Students 9th - 10th
Discusses in detail the grading of diamonds, as well as briefly discussing their structure, physical properties, and historical background. Accompanied by clear illustrations.
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Interactive
Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Colored Shadows

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Manipulate dual shadows and learn why different types of shadows are cast.
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Interactive
Chemistry Collective

Chem Collective: Why Things Have Color

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This tutorial demonstrates spectroscopy showing the dispersion of an object's light.
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Activity
Antonio Salinas and Maria Jesus Egea

Vedoque: Mueve La Mano!

For Students Pre-K - 1st
This site is for young children, to learn how to use the mouse, click, drag, drop, colors, letters and shapes.
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Unit Plan
Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: The Science of Light: Light in Color

For Students 9th - 10th
Site explores colors and how they are formed. Provides three different activities to explore color.
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Article
The Tech Interactive

Tech Museum of Innovation: Common Light Sources

For Students 9th - 10th
While reviewing various light sources, the source of colors (white, red, yellow, blue) are also discussed. The bouncing of light, the matching of colors, and seeing colors are all highlighted.
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Website
University of Saskatchewan (Canada)

University of Saskatchewan: Value & Color

For Students 9th - 10th
Basic color theory is discussed in relaton to computer art applications. Illustrated.
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eBook
Physics Classroom

The Physics Classroom: Light Waves/color: Absorption, Reflection, Transmission

For Students 9th - 10th
In this physics classroom, students learn how and why light of certain frequencies can be selectively absorbed, reflected or transmitted.
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Activity
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Bill Nye Demonstration: Chemistry of Color

For Students 9th - 10th
Ever wonder why some colors dissolve in water and others don't? Watch this video to learn why. [2:16]
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Unit Plan
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Bill Nye the Science Guy Answers: Why Is the Sky Blue?

For Students 9th - 10th
Take a look at this video [0:51] from Bill Nye the Science Guy to learn why the sky is blue.
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Article
Frontiers Media

Frontiers: The Truth About a Bird's Eye View

For Students 3rd - 8th
An article about the eyes and sight of different animals including flies, dogs, color vision, and night vision.
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Activity
Other

Up to Ten: Freestyle Drawing With Shapes and Colors

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Choose a shape, then a color, and draw anything you want.
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Website
Other

Bielefeld Univ.: Simulation of Lattice Gauge Theories

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from the Bielefeld University has links to papers and plots dealing with gauge theory.
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Lesson Plan
Lumen Learning

Lumen: Boundless Communications: Preparing Sensory Enhancements

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site provides four links to information about the effective use of sensory enhancements such as audio visual to your speeches. These include the do's of using sensory enhancements, the don'ts of using sensory enhancements, design...
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Handout
Purple Math

Purplemath: Number Bases: Introduction & Binary Numbers

For Students 9th - 10th
The process of converting between different number bases is actually fairly simple, but the thinking behind it can seem a bit confusing at first. And while the topic of different bases may seem somewhat pointless to you, the rise of...
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Website
Other

The Vision Learning Center: Color Blindness

For Students 9th - 10th
Page with facts about color blindness. Provides good questions and good feedback about this eye condition and what treatments are available.
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Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Physical Science: Women and People of Color in Science

For Students 7th - 9th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Biases against women and people of color in science, and contributions of women and people of color in science.
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Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Chemistry: Physical Properties of Matter

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Definition of physical property and examples of the physical properties of matter.