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In this activity, learners explore how nanosized structures can create brilliant color.

In this activity, learners explore how and why rainbows form by creating rainbows in a variety of ways using simple materials. Learners create rainbows indoors and outdoors.

In this activity, learners determine the necessary conditions for pea seed germination.

In this food science activity, learners conduct an experiment that demonstrates the importance of light to plants.

In this demonstration/experiment, learners discover that different colors and materials (metals, fabrics, paints) radiate different amounts of energy and therefore, cool at different rates.

In this data collection and analysis activity, learners evaluate fish physiology and ecology using vision research data from Dr.

In this outdoor activity, learners search for the warmest and coolest, windiest and calmest, wettest and driest, and brightest and darkest spots in an area.

In this outdoor activity, learners use only their senses to to find the extremes of several environmental variables or physical factors: wind, temperature, light, slope and moisture.

This is an activity about turbidity, or the amount of sediment suspended in water.

In this math activity related to light, learners assemble a photometer and use it to estimate the power output of the Sun.

In this outdoor, winter activity, learners find living green plants under the snow and determine the light and temperature conditions around the plants.