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Curated OER

Ncar: About Rainbows

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from the University Corporation of Atmospheric Research provides an illustrated article about the phenomenon of rainbows.
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Graphic
Curated OER

Ncar: About Rainbows

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from the University Corporation of Atmospheric Research provides an illustrated article about the phenomenon of rainbows.
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Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Density Rainbow and the Great Viscosity Race

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Students explore the densities and viscosities of fluids as they create a colorful 'rainbow' using household liquids. While letting the fluids in the rainbow settle, students conduct 'The Great Viscosity Race,' another short experiment...
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Activity
Center of Science and Industry

Cosi Columbus: Coffee Filter Rainbows

For Students 3rd - 8th
Science experiment that demonstrates chromotography. Includes full list of materials, procedures, and scientific explanation of what happens with different colors when they are soaked with water.
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Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Rainbow Challenge Lab

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this inquiry lab activity, students will attempt to layer 6 different kinds of soda pops in a large test tube using their knowledge of density and other physical properties of liquids.
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Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Rainbow Milk

For Teachers K - 1st
This activity is designed for students to learn that primary colors mixed together make secondary colors. They will also experiment with how fat and soap molecules repel each other in water.
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Interactive
TeacherLED

Teacher Led Interactive Whiteboard Resource Rainbow Multiplication

For Students K - 1st
Students will practice multiplication facts with this interactive white board activity.
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Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Graphing the Rainbow

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students are introduced to different ways of displaying visual spectra, including colored "barcode" spectra, like those produced by a diffraction grating, and line plots displaying intensity versus color, or wavelength. Students learn...
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Lesson Plan
Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: Rainbow Number Line

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
The teacher will prepare number lines for the young scholars to trace. These number lines can be taped to the desk to be used for number recognition, sequencing, counting, "number forward", and "number backward" activities. An example is...
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Handout
PBS

Pbs Nova: Secrets of Lost Empires

For Students 9th - 10th
NOVA ferrets out long-forgotten secrets of architects and engineers of the early civilizations. Content focuses on the trebuchets of medieval Europe, the pharaoh's obelisks of ancient Egypt, the moai statues of Easter Island, the...
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Interactive
University of Colorado

University of Colorado: Ph Et Interactive Simulations: Color Vision

For Students 9th - 10th
Make a whole rainbow by mixing red, green, and blue light. Change the wavelength of a monochromatic beam or filter white light. View the light as a solid beam, or see the individual photons.
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Handout
Greek Gods

Greek Gods: Demigods & Spirits: Iris

For Students 9th - 10th
Read about the golden-winged Iris who was a goddess of the sea and the sky, the personification of the rainbow, and the female messenger of the gods.
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Activity
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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Lesson Plan
Utah Education Network

Uen: Enlightening Explorations, Part Iii

For Teachers 6th
This lesson 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 lesson. Then students will engage in the following labs:...
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Handout
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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Activity
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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Activity
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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Graphic
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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Graphic
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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Website
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.
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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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Website
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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Lesson Plan
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Song Inspired Color Poetry

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this lesson 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...
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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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