Audience
Educators
Grade Levels
Grades 5-8
Subject
Waves, Light
Type
Lesson Plans / Activities
This unit calls for students to build simple spectroscopes to study visible light. Lesson plans in this unit include Simple Spectroscope; Project Visible Spectra; Cereal Box Spectroscope; Red Shift, Blue Shift; Wavelength and Energy; and Resonating Atmosphere. Reproducible student sheets are included.
The Electromagnetic Spectrum Unit [473KB PDF file]
This unit of study is part of the Space-Based Astronomy Educator Guide.