STORY AND ART ACTIVITY AT SOUTH SHORE SCIENCE FESTIVAL
Science Theme: white light refracting into colors
The children will have a chance to examine various objects that refract light into colors before reading the story to them (beads, ribbon, glittery nail polish, blowing bubbles, e.g..
The Rainbow Fish is about a beautiful fish with shiny scales that refract into the colors of the rainbow. He is admired by the other fish (and he loves to be admired). When the little blue fish asks him for one of his scales, he refuses. All the fish begin to avoid him. Finally he seeks advice and is told that he should try giving his scales to the other fish, and he will learn something new. When he gives away a scale, he has a "peculiar" feeling, which he discovers he likes. It makes him happy.
Science Theme: white light refracting into colors
The children will have a chance to examine various objects that refract light into colors before reading the story to them (beads, ribbon, glittery nail polish, blowing bubbles, e.g..
The Rainbow Fish is about a beautiful fish with shiny scales that refract into the colors of the rainbow. He is admired by the other fish (and he loves to be admired). When the little blue fish asks him for one of his scales, he refuses. All the fish begin to avoid him. Finally he seeks advice and is told that he should try giving his scales to the other fish, and he will learn something new. When he gives away a scale, he has a "peculiar" feeling, which he discovers he likes. It makes him happy.
(NOTE This activity sheet doesn't copy too well to this blog:
W H I T E L I G H T and C O L O U R S are supposed to be written in letter outlines. This way, the letters in W H I T E L I G H T are left white, while the letters in C O L O U R S are to be colored in with the color written below them. By the way, I used the British spelling for the 7 colors.)
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W H I T E L I G H T refracting to
C O L O U R S
red yellow blue violet
orange green. indigo
Draw
a FISH – or a RAINBOW – or both!
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This
activity suggested to be used with The
Rainbow Fish
by Marcus Pfister, North-South Books, NY, 1992.
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Did you know?
White
light can be seen refracting into different colors:
- blowing bubbles
- in soapsuds when washing hands or the dishes
- in jewels
- in scratches on the windshield on a sunny day
- Where else?
Did
you know?
It
was Sir Isaac Newton who discovered this. He noticed the
sunlight coming through a tiny hole in the curtain and passing through a prism –
breaking into different colors.
My
theory is that this amazing physics discovery was all because of a
moth!
Kathy
Dullea Hogan
Gateway
to Science: Sports and Games
http://sportscience-kathy.blogspot.com
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