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This is an online exhibit about color perception. Learners set a random background color and then try to mix red, blue, and green light to match.

In this online activity, learners make a whole rainbow by mixing red, green, and blue light. They can change the wavelength of a monochromatic beam or they can filter white light.

In this activity, learners use tonic water to detect ultraviolet (UV) light from the Sun and explore the concept of fluorescence.

In this activity, learners use gelatin as a lens to investigate the properties of laser light.

This is an online activity about what would happen if we could travel at or near the speed of light.

This fun and simple hands-on astronomy activity illustrates the path of light as it reflects off of mirrors and how this is used in telescopes.

In this activity, learners will explore how different colors of lights interact with objects around them. Will a blue object stay blue with a red filter?

In this activity, learners use a flashlight, a glass of water, and some milk to examine why the sky is blue and sunsets are red.

In this optics activity, learners discover that not all shadows are black. Learners explore human color perception by using colored lights to make additive color mixtures.

In this trick, hold your hand over a burning candle without getting burned, by reflecting and transmitting the light of two candles. This activity is best suited as a demonstration.

In this activity, learners use a laser pointer, empty soda bottle, rubber plug and water to demonstrate total internal reflection.

In this activity, learners will make their own prism and use a glass of water to separate sunlight into different colors.

In this optics activity, learners examine how polarized light can reveal stress patterns in clear plastic.

In this activity, learners sublimate dry ice and then taste the carbon dioxide gas.

In this activity (17th on the page), learners investigate why you cannot see colors in dim light.

In this activity, learners investigate the properties of graphene and graphite.

Look at pictures through different color filters and you'll see them in a new way. People have used color filters in beautiful photography or sending secret messages.

Do you have a hard time matching paint swatches with your furniture? When you consider human perception, color is context dependent.

In this activity, learners control the (apparent) size of a hole with their brain.

Make a big canvas of iridescent color with pvc pipe! In this Exploratorium Science Snack, you'll need to cut and assemble some PVC pipe, but the pay-off, the soap-bubble canvas, is big.