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Who doesn’t love rainbows? In this Rainbow Science lesson plan for elementary schoolers, you’ll play with refraction and reflection, read about how to use your imagination to make your community a better place, and create your own hand-held rainbows in a kaleidoscopic swirl of color!

Resources in This Lesson

Resource 1

Explore how refraction and reflection help us to see different wavelengths of the visible light spectrum.

Rainbow Science Experiments
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Rosie Explores Rainbow Science

Have fun "bending" light this week while exploring and making rainbows!

Resource 2

One persons’ trash is another persons’ treasure! Explore how you can create something to make your community a better place with this fun Be A Maker book.

Be A Maker book cover

Rosie Reads Be A Maker 

Spark your imagination and explore what you could make to help your community!

Resource 3

Put all your knowledge of visible light, refraction and reflection from Rosie Explores to good use and build an awesome kaleidoscope!

Kaleidoscope
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Rosie Makes a Kaleidoscope

Use recycled materials to create fun and colorful kaleidoscopes that refract and reflect light!

Resource 4

Continue learning and exploring with some of these tried and tested Rosie Recommends activities from other STEM educational resources.

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Rosie Recommends Visible Light Activities!

From spectroscopes to mini rainbows, we’ve curated a list of some of our favorite visible light activities for you to explore.