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Rotating Light
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In this activity, learners explore what happens when polarized white light passes through a sugar solution.
Bone Stress
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In this optics activity, learners examine how polarized light can reveal stress patterns in clear plastic.
Spinning Tops
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Create your own spinning top, and explore color, shapes and spinning. This activity contains instructions for making your spinning top, and tips on how to design and decorate it.
Release the Rainbow
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In this activity, learners create a water prism to break light into the seven colors of the rainbow.
Rainbow in the Room
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This activity generates learner excitement about light through the creation of a room-sized rainbow.
Finding Red
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In this chemistry challenge, learners systematically investigate which combination of four solutions produces a deep red color.
Canned Heat
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In this activity, learners explore how light and dark colored objects absorb the Sun's radiations at different rates.
Why is the Sky Blue?
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In this activity, learners create a "mini sky" in a glass of water in a dark room.
Colored Shadows
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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.
Natural Selection Because of Different Color: Camouflage
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In this activity (p.5-6 of PDF), learners investigate natural selection. Learners discover that natural selection, which takes place over decades, can lead to altered populations within a species.
Why is the Sky Purple?
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This simple hands-on activity demonstrates why the sky appears blue on a sunny day and red during sunrise and sunset.