Exploratorium
Exploratorium: How to Build a Spectroscope
Instructions for how to construct a spectroscope from basic materials, which can be used to study colors produced by light from different sources. Adult supervision may be required for the use of the utility knife. Includes an...
New York Times
New York Times: Interactive: Travels With Brice Marden
An audio slideshow that walks you through four studios where artist Brice Marden paints. Explains and illustrates the characteristic qualities of Marden's work. An excellent site for demonstrating how place and the quality of light at...
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: The Science of Light: Light in Color
Site explores colors and how they are formed. Provides three different activities to explore color.
Optical Society
Optical Society of America: Optics for Kids: What Causes Rainbows?
An experiment to demonstrate how to make a rainbow and why they form.
Optical Society
Optical Society of America: Optics for Kids: Make a Green Gumball Black
An experiment to investigate what colors are seen when light is absorbed or reflected by colored gumballs. With links to scientific, academic articles that explain what is happening.
Optical Society
Optical Society of America: Optics for Kids: Spinning Your (Color) Wheels
Instructions on how to make a color wheel that spins to produce white. With links to scientific, academic articles that explain what is happening.
Optical Society
Optical Society of America: Optics for Kids: Release the Rainbow
A simple activity to demonstrate how light separates into colors when it passes through water acting as a prism.
Optical Society
Optical Society of America: Optics for Kids: Why Are Bubbles So Colorful?
An experiment to create colors using bubbles and then with glass slides. With links to scientific, academic articles that explain what causes the colors to appear.