Activities You Can Do at Home
1. Make a rainbow!
This requires a sunny day and a friend to help. Stand with your back to
the Sun. Have your friend spray a fine mist of water into the air a few feet
away from you. You can use either
a hose with a spray attachment, or a plant mister.
2. Cool things to look at with your Rainbow Glasses!
| Remember Rule Number One! Don't Look at the Sun!
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At home, try looking at anything that glows. This works best if the rest of
the room is dark and you stand some distance away.
- Lamps
- Candles
- Gas flame or hot electric burner on the stove
- Fire in the fireplace
- Sunlight reflecting off of a car or other item outside
Outside at night there are lots of cool things to look at with your
glasses!
- Street light - sodium type (orange colored light)
- note that the rainbow has
only certain colors in it, like bright beads of color! That is
the special rainbow of sodium.
- Street light - mercury type (white light)
- note that the rainbow has
only certain colors in it, like bright beads of color! That is
the special rainbow of mercury.
- Moon - this is sunlight reflected off the Moon's surface (safe to look at)
- Venus - the bright "star" (actually a planet of course)
in the eastern sky before sunrise (rainbow will be faint so do this away
from other lights)
- Car lights - white headlights and red tail lights
- Store signs
- Neon signs at stores. These are cool - they also glow only in
certain colors, like bright beads of color (the special rainbow
of neon)! Neon signs are made
with thin tubes and are usually red, blue, or green. Many stores
hang them in their windows. In my town, lots of stores have
neon signs that say "OPEN".
These are the colors of Neon!
| Can you find anything else that glows?
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