Colors of Nature activities
Pigments
Red Green. Look at nature through colored filters Red and Blue, use slides from and pictures in the book.
Pigments: Plants, paint, water colors, or markers.
Diffraction grating activity Use a diffraction grating to project a spectrum and check for light absorbed by filters.
Cabbage Juice Color: The Science Explorer, Color Changing Cabbage Juice
Paper Chromatography: The Science Explorer, Black Magic.
Incandescent
Sun, stars
Stove, lamp on a dimmer.
lightning
Atomic
Aurora
Spectra Exploration, Look at the spectra of many different light sources.
Neon
LED's
Interference
Clear nail polish color: Science Explorer Rainbow Prints Activity.
Soap film in a can activity, Make a soap film across the mouth of a film can and look for colors.
Bird feathers
Diffraction pencil, snack.
Diffraction by a CD: The Science Explorer Reflecting Rainbows
Scattering
Blue sky, hot melt glue, snack
Why is the sky blue?eye color
water and ice color
polar bears
Refraction
Rainbows, Exploring Magazine article, Circles in the Sky
Rainbow beads
Halo
prism from the store.
Green Flash, Why the edge of the setting sun sometimes becomes green.