Physics - Light and Color

 
Colours- and other Interactive Activities  - From the Ontario Science Centre,
Toronto Ontario Canada
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Color Matters
http://www.colormatters.com/
Color plays a vitally important role in the world in which we live. Colorcan sway thinking, change actions,
and cause reactions. It can irritate or soothe your eyes, raise your blood pressure or suppress your appetite.
"This incredibly extensive site is my pick of the day for high school students and adults. It includes sections
on the science, sociology and art of color with titles such as Color & Vision, Color & The Brain, Color & Design
and Color & The World.

Interactive Physics and math - Java applets
http://www.lightlink.com/sergey/java/index.html
Includes java applets about lasers, light, lenses, pendulums, electric fields etc..

Interactive Physics and math - Java applets
http://www.lightlink.com/sergey/java/index.html
Includes java applets about lasers, light, lenses, pendulums, electric fields etc..

Making a Splash with Color
http://www.thetech.org/exhibits_events/online/color/
The eye is a very complicated machine with lots of special parts. Light enters and travels through our eyes,
and then messages go out the back of the eye to the brain. These messages create colors in our mind.
" This color tutorial from The Tech Museum of Innovation is my pick of the day for middle school students.
My favorite click is the Talking About Color chapter on hue (the color of a color), saturation
(the pureness of a color) and brightness (the strength of a color.) Still confused?
Try the interactive experiments and discover hue, saturation and brightness for yourself.

Science Optics and You - Molecular Expressions
http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/optics/index.html
Science, Optics and You is a science curriculum package being developed for teachers, students, and parents. These activities are designed to promote the asking and answering of questions related to light, color, and optics. The Power of Ten activity allows students to soar through space from the Milky Way to a single proton in order of magnitudes of ten.

Refraction of Light (Java Applet) - P. Dukes, Brigham Young University 
http://wigner.byu.edu/LightRefract/LightRefract.html
Visual simulation of waves going from one material into another. One can change the incident angle, the index of refraction, and the color of the light, i.e., its wavelength.

 
Seeing Color - includes color test
http://ls.la.asu.edu/askabiologist/research/seecolor/
This site on color vision is designed for K-12 students and includes a sample color blindness test using two
of the Ishihara charts along with brief explanations about color blindness. Included are links to Sir Isaac Newton
and a chart on common animals and the colors they see. Developed by the Research Topics section of the
Ask a Biologist site at Arizona StateUniversity.
Grade Level: Middle School, High School Content Area: Science (Life Science)

Understanding Colors - Thinkquest
http://library.thinkquest.org/50065/
This site is designed to provide you with information on how color plays a role in our lives by examining the
properties, theories, meanings and effects of color. It offers a cross-curricular approach bymaking connections
between the art, the science, the psychology and/or sociology of each aspect of color." Written by anonymous high-school students for the ThinkQuest Internet Challenge, Understanding Color includes student activities
and lesson plans for teachers.

 
   
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