1. Rainbow Relay

Tags: [light, colour, rainbow, roygbiv]  ...

2. Over The Rainbow

Tags: [light, colour, rainbow, roygbiv, wavelength, waves, spectrum]  ...

3. Feeling Blue

Tags: [colour, methylene blue, chemistry, oxidation]  ...

4. Indoor Rainbows

Tags: [light, white light, rainbow, colour, angles]  ...

5. Coloured Shadows

Tags: [colour, light, cones, optics]  ...

6. Chromatography Caper

Tags: [colour, chromatography, light, chemistry, solubility]  ...

7. Homemade Chalk

Tags: [colour, chalk, art]  ...

8. Image Decoder

Tags: [Optics, rod cell, cone cell, eye, brightness, colour]  ...

9. Stroop Effect

Tags: [optical illusion, brain, visual cues, colour, stroop effect]  ...

10. Canadian Flag After-Image

Tags: [optical illusion, brain, visual cues, colour, cone cell, cell fatigue, afterimage]  ...

11. Benham's Disk

Tags: [optical illusion, brain, visual cues, colour, cone cell, benham's disk]  ...

12. Hummingbirds

Tags: [bird, animals, colour, flight, adaptation, pollination, pollinator, green, kindergarten, grade 1, grade 2, grade 4, grade 6, grade 7]  ...

13. Wet and Dry

... and Kindergarten educators. Objectives Describe wet and dry objects and materials by colour, texture, and weight Identify objects and materials that do and do not absorb water (get wet) Use the ...

14. Hummingbird dress-up

In this demonstration, students investigate the unique physical features of hummingbirds. Introduction Feathers can be used for flight, but in some birds, including hummingbirds, colourful feathers ...

15. Colour Call

Students practice identifying which colour flowers each pollinator is most likely to pollinate. Introduction Each group of pollinators prefers flowers of a specific colour range. Scientists have ...

16. Bird Silhouettes

Students make bird silhouettes to prevent birds from crashing into windows. Introduction Pollinators are attracted to specific colours and may get confused by man-made objects. When there is a pane ...

17. Backyard Brainstorm

... kinds of plants and animals living in our community. We use different senses to observe life around us—we may pay attention to the sounds of birdcalls, the colour of an insect, or the smell of a skunk ...

18. Light Patterns

... cause material to change. Light-sensitive paper is a special type of paper which is very sensitive to the sun's rays. When light hits it, chemicals in the paper react to the suns' rays and change colour. ...

19. UV Beads

Students use colour-changing, ultraviolet-sensitive beads to observe how sunscreen can block the harmful effects of the sun's rays. Introduction One type of light from the sun, called ultraviolet ...

20. Solar UFO's

... to the concept that hot air rises. Introduction Different colours absorb different amounts of the sun's energy. Black absorbs the most energy of all the colours so it gets hot quickly. If a black ...