Two Simple Activities to Bring Rainbows into the Classroom

Isik, Hakan; Yurumezoglu, Kemal

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The Physics Teacher -- January 2012 -- Volume 50, Issue 1, pp. 38

Two Simple Activities to Bring Rainbows into the Classroom

Hakan Isik¹ and Kemal Yurumezoglu²

¹Mugla University, Turkey
²Dokuz Eylul University, Turkey

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A rainbow reveals the colors of sunlight in a breathtaking way, but the formation of this natural event cannot be controlled by human beings. Transforming this out-of-class experience into a teaching activity is a challenge for science educators. This paper outlines two activities for rainbow formation in the science classroom in cases of good sunlight availability and artificial light.

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physics education, student experiments

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01.50.My

Demonstration experiments and apparatus

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American Association of Physics Teachers

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