Color Vision
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Topics
- Photons
- Monochromatic Light
- White Light
- Rainbows
Description
Make a whole rainbow by mixing red, green, and blue light. Change the wavelength of a monochromatic beam or filter white light. View the light as a solid beam, or see the individual photons.
Sample Learning Goals
- Determine what color the person sees for various combinations of red, green, and blue light.
- Describe the color of light that is able to pass through different colored filters.
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Teacher-Submitted Activities
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| Investigation of a Solution’s Color (Qualitative and Quantitative) - Guided Inquiry Activity |
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Ted Clark, Julia Chamberlain | UG-Intro | Guided |
| Visualization and Visual Illusions SIM Homework |
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Kathy Perkins, Carl Wieman | UG-Intro | HW |
| PhET Sims Aligned to the Chemistry Curriculum |
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Julia Chamberlain | UG-Intro HS |
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| How do PhET simulations fit in my middle school program? |
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Sarah Borenstein | MS | Other | |
| Alignment of PhET sims with NGSS |
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Trish Loeblein | HS | Other | |
| Color Vision Simulation Homework |
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Kathy Perkins, Carl Wieman | HS UG-Intro |
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| MS and HS TEK to Sim Alignment | Elyse Zimmer | HS MS |
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| Color Vision Lab! | Jamie Schoenberger | MS | Guided Lab |
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| Color Vision pHet Lab | Zach Yindra | MS | Lab Guided |
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| Color Vision Sim Lab | Sam Steele | MS | HW Guided Lab |
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| Pixel Peeping | Dean Baird, Paul G. Hewitt | HS UG-Intro |
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| Seeing Colors | Charina Genosolango and Cyrelle Jay Cordero | UG-Intro HS MS K-5 |
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| Simulações no Ensino de Fisica | Carla Tavares | HS | HW Guided MC Demo Other Discuss Lab |
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| Windows 7+ | Mac OS 10.7+ | iPad and iPad Mini with iOS | Chromebook with Chrome OS |
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