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Read Works

Read Works: Wild Weather

For Teachers 2nd Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read about different types of March weather including: clouds, blizzards, thunder, lightning, and rainbows. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in cause and effect.
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Website
Curated OER

National Park Service: Devils Postpile National Monument

For Students Pre-K - 1st
National Park Services offers a geological curiosity with Devils Postpile National Monument in Mammoth Lakes, California. Columnar basalt, Rainbow Falls, and Reds Meadow Valley are all part of this wonder just west of the crest of the...
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Website
Curated OER

National Park Service: Devils Postpile National Monument

For Students Pre-K - 1st
National Park Services offers a geological curiosity with Devils Postpile National Monument in Mammoth Lakes, California. Columnar basalt, Rainbow Falls, and Reds Meadow Valley are all part of this wonder just west of the crest of the...
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Website
Other

Atmospheric Optics

For Students 9th - 10th
Instead of just ooohing and aaahing over that beautiful sunset, impress your loved ones with an insightful and informed explanation of just what makes sunsets so interesting, and they will oooh and aaah at you too! At this site, you'll...
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Handout
Other

Fishbase: Elagatis Bipinnulata (Hawaiian Salmon)

For Students 9th - 10th
Fishbase provides extensive information on the Elagatis bipinnulata/ Hawaiian Salmon/ Rainbow Runner, which is found worldwide in marine waters, as well as a nice illustration of the species.
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Lesson Plan
McREL International

Mc Rel: Whelmer #64 Learning Activity: Liquid Rainbow

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
An easy to do activity that investigates density and solubility. The activity is presented in lesson plan format that meets NSES standards.
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Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Acid (And Base) Rainbows

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students are introduced to the differences between acids and bases and how to use indicators, such as pH paper and red cabbage juice, to distinguish between them.
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Activity
Read Works

Read Works: April Showers

For Teachers 2nd
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about rain, thunderstorms, and rainbows in the spring. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Graphic
Curated OER

Web Gallery of Art: Landscape With Rainbow, Henley on Thames

For Students 11th - 12th
An image of "Landscape with Rainbow, Henley-on-Thames", created by Jan Siberechts, c. 1690 (Oil on canvas, 82,5 x 103 cm).
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Graphic
Curated OER

Web Gallery of Art: Landscape With Rainbow

For Students 11th - 12th
An image of "Landscape with Rainbow", created by Joseph Wright, c. 1795 (Oil on canvas, 81 x 107 cm).
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eBook
Open Library of the Internet Archive

Open Library: The Tin Woodman of Oz

For Students 9th - 10th
This ebook version of L. Frank Baum's The Tin Woodman Of Oz: A Faithful Story Of The Astonishing Adventure Undertaken By The Tin Woodman, Assisted By Woot The Wanderer, The Scarecrow Of Oz, And Polychrome, The Rainbow's Daughter has been...
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Handout
Wikimedia

Wikipedia: History of the Kenya African National Union

For Students 9th - 10th
Read about the history of the political party of Kenya, the Kenya African National Union. The article provides information from its incarnation in 1960 to its defeat by the National Rainbow Coalition in 2002, ending 40 years of rule.
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Website
Other

Hong Kong Observatory: Nature's Wonders Explained

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about sunburns, rainbows, lenses, red eyes in photos, and why the sky is blue. Slightly random set of "wonders" but informative and available in both English and Chinese.
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Graphic
Curated OER

Web Gallery of Art: Autumn Landscape With Rainbow

For Students 11th - 12th
An image of "Autumn Landscape with Rainbow", created by Jacob Cats in 1779 (Watercolour and pen, 334 x 415 mm).
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Graphic
Curated OER

Web Gallery of Art: Heroic Landscape With Rainbow

For Students 11th - 12th
An image of "Heroic Landscape with Rainbow", created by Joseph Anton Koch in 1815 (Oil on canvas, 188 x 171 cm).
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Graphic
Curated OER

Web Gallery of Art: Italian Landscape With Viaduct and Rainbow

For Students 11th - 12th
An image of "Italian Landscape with Viaduct and Rainbow", created by Karoly the Elder Marko in 1838 (Oil on canvas, 75 x 100 cm).
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Lesson Plan
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Writing Rainbows

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Students begin this lesson by reading several books about colors such as Cat's Colors by Jane Cabrera, My Many Colored Days by Dr. Suess, Hailstones and Halibut Bones by Mary O'Neil, and A Color of His Own by Leo Lionni. After discussing...
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Website
Other

Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow

For Students 9th - 10th
This is an interestng clearinghouse of Pynchon information.
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Activity
Utah Education Network

Uen: I'll Build You a Rainbow

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
In these three activities, students explore the colors of the spectrum in white light.
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Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Our World Is Like a Rainbow

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Americans continue to adapt to different ethnic and cultural groups who move into their communities. It is vital that children become aware of and appreciate cultural diversities in people. People move to different areas for reasons such...
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Graphic
Curated OER

Quia: Washington State Fish, Rainbow Trout

For Students Pre-K - 1st
An image of the Washington State Fish.
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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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Handout
Synopsys

Synopsys: A Gentle Intro to Optical Design: Why Is the Sky Blue?

For Students 9th - 10th
Discusses Rayleigh scattering in plain language and attributes the blueness of the skies to this phenomenon. Discussion of scattering is just one topic of many on this lengthy page of optical topics.
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Activity
Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Using Laser Pointer to Measure Data Track Spacing on C Ds, Dv Ds

For Students 9th - 10th
You've probably noticed the colorful patterns "reflecting" from the shiny surface of a CD disk. What you are seeing is actually diffraction of white light, and the rainbows of color are diffraction patterns. In this project you'll learn...

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