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Unit Plan
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Waves: The Three Color Mystery

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students are presented with a challenge question concerning color blindness and asked to use engineering principles to design devices to help people who are color blind. Using the legacy cycle as a model, this unit is comprised of five...
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Website
Other

Sky Server: Color

For Students 6th - 8th
SkyServer answers why stars have different colors and shows what you can learn by studying the colors of stars, galaxies, and other objects.
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Activity
Exploratorium

Exploratorium: Black Magic

For Students K - 1st
A great and easy-to-do activity where students separate the colors in a black marker and develop an understanding that black is a composite of other colors.
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Activity
Exploratorium

Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Cd Spectroscope

For Students 9th - 10th
Analyze light by creating a CD spectroscope in this activity. See the whole spectrum of light with the spectroscope.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Understanding Spectra

For Students 9th - 10th
This is an 8-problem quiz/practice to increase students' understanding of spectra. Color is a property of light. Test your understanding of this concept and how light can be represented in with a spectral power distribution.
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Graphic
Curated OER

Georgia State University: Color

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from Georgia State University discusses the location of visible light on the electromagnetic spectrum. Includes the wavelength values for various colors of light within the visible light spectrum.
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Website
York University

York University: Color and Color Vision

For Students 9th - 10th
York University provides an index page to several other pages on the topic of color and color vision. The pages are part of an online "book." Many graphics and explanations.
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Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Waves Go Public!

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students apply everything they have learned over the course of the associated lessons about waves, light properties, the electromagnetic spectrum, and the structure of the eye, by designing devices that can aid color blind people in...
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Handout
Optical Society

Optical Society of America: Optics for Kids: What Causes Rainbows?

For Students 3rd - 5th
An experiment to demonstrate how to make a rainbow and why they form.