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.