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Color Challenge: Three Color Challenge Color Challenge: Make One Circle from Three Color Challenge: Find the Cat's True Colors Plant Challenge: Do Plants Grow at Night? Plant Challenge: What is the Area of This Leaf? Plant Challenge: How Long are these Pine Needles? Plant Challenge: How Tall is the Tree? Plant Challenge: What is the Tree's Diameter? Plant Challenge: How Dense is the Tree Canopy? Satellite Challenge: Sequence of Mt. St. Helens Images Satellite Challenge: How Fast is the Aral Sea Disappearing?
Interactive Concept Map of Investigations Color Dueling Light Beams Mixing Colors Movie illustrating basics of mixing paints and light Color Space Naming Colors Movies illustrating effect of mixing color intensities Tri-Color Prediction Game TriColor Tri-Color Reference Chart Report TriColor Light Detection Visually Exploring LEDs Lighting LEDs Measure the Angle of Sensitivity of an LED Measure the Range of Light an LED Detects Measure Emission, Transmission, Reflection and Absorption Emission Reflection Transmission Measure Warm and Cold Objects with LEDs Measure the Reflection of Land Covers Relate Your Data to Landsat Images Check your predictions and Key of Landsat Colors Color Digital Images Introduction to Pixels Example of a Pixel Impact of Pixel Size on What Can Be Seen in a Digital Photograph Movie of Impact of Pixel Size on What Can Be Seen in Digital Photographs Pixel Count Chart Color of a Pixel Introduction to Color Within a Digital Picture Color Layers in a Digital Image Basics of Digital Cameras Using a Digital Camera to See Why the Sky is Blue Use digital photographs to measure faces to see who you look more alike Use digital maps to see how much old growth forest was lost in your area over the past three centuries Use digital maps of plant populations over time to see what was in your backyard thousands of year ago Use special digital cameras to see why some clothes heat up more than others of the same color when exposed to sunlight Examples of paired visible and near infrared photographs Plants Adopt a Leaf Adopt a Branch Adopt a Landscape with PicturePosts Using PicturePost Pictures History of PicturePost Adopt a Landsat Pixel with Forest Watch What's Been in Your Backyard Since the Ice Age Ended? Where Did the Old Growth Forests Go? Remote Sensing Displaying Invisible Light: False Color Characteristic Surface Reflectance See examples of plant reflectance patterns Using Analysis Tools Vegetation Measurements Satellite Analysis Pulling It All Together Supporting Earth Day Community Video Projects Studying an Urban Wetland
Interactive Concept Map of Investigations
Dueling Light Beams Mixing Colors
Dueling Light Beams
Mixing Colors
Movie illustrating basics of mixing paints and light
Color Space Naming Colors
Movies illustrating effect of mixing color intensities
Tri-Color Prediction Game TriColor Tri-Color Reference Chart Report TriColor
Visually Exploring LEDs Lighting LEDs Measure the Angle of Sensitivity of an LED Measure the Range of Light an LED Detects Measure Emission, Transmission, Reflection and Absorption Emission Reflection Transmission Measure Warm and Cold Objects with LEDs Measure the Reflection of Land Covers Relate Your Data to Landsat Images Check your predictions and Key of Landsat Colors
Visually Exploring LEDs Lighting LEDs Measure the Angle of Sensitivity of an LED Measure the Range of Light an LED Detects Measure Emission, Transmission, Reflection and Absorption
Emission Reflection Transmission
Measure Warm and Cold Objects with LEDs Measure the Reflection of Land Covers Relate Your Data to Landsat Images Check your predictions and Key of Landsat Colors
Introduction to Pixels Example of a Pixel Impact of Pixel Size on What Can Be Seen in a Digital Photograph
Movie of Impact of Pixel Size on What Can Be Seen in Digital Photographs Pixel Count Chart Color of a Pixel Introduction to Color Within a Digital Picture Color Layers in a Digital Image Basics of Digital Cameras Using a Digital Camera to See Why the Sky is Blue Use digital photographs to measure faces to see who you look more alike Use digital maps to see how much old growth forest was lost in your area over the past three centuries Use digital maps of plant populations over time to see what was in your backyard thousands of year ago Use special digital cameras to see why some clothes heat up more than others of the same color when exposed to sunlight Examples of paired visible and near infrared photographs
Movie of Impact of Pixel Size on What Can Be Seen in Digital Photographs
Pixel Count Chart Color of a Pixel Introduction to Color Within a Digital Picture Color Layers in a Digital Image Basics of Digital Cameras Using a Digital Camera to See Why the Sky is Blue Use digital photographs to measure faces to see who you look more alike Use digital maps to see how much old growth forest was lost in your area over the past three centuries Use digital maps of plant populations over time to see what was in your backyard thousands of year ago Use special digital cameras to see why some clothes heat up more than others of the same color when exposed to sunlight Examples of paired visible and near infrared photographs
Adopt a Leaf Adopt a Branch Adopt a Landscape with PicturePosts Using PicturePost Pictures History of PicturePost Adopt a Landsat Pixel with Forest Watch What's Been in Your Backyard Since the Ice Age Ended? Where Did the Old Growth Forests Go?
Adopt a Leaf Adopt a Branch Adopt a Landscape with PicturePosts
Using PicturePost Pictures History of PicturePost
Adopt a Landsat Pixel with Forest Watch What's Been in Your Backyard Since the Ice Age Ended? Where Did the Old Growth Forests Go?
Displaying Invisible Light: False Color Characteristic Surface Reflectance See examples of plant reflectance patterns Using Analysis Tools Vegetation Measurements Satellite Analysis
Displaying Invisible Light: False Color Characteristic Surface Reflectance
See examples of plant reflectance patterns
Using Analysis Tools Vegetation Measurements Satellite Analysis
Supporting Earth Day Community Video Projects Studying an Urban Wetland
Overview of Photosynthesis and Light
Plant Stress Detection Filters Light Reflected from Green Leaves Light Reflected from Stressed Leaves Light Passing Through Purple Filters Using Purple Filters with Plants Example Photos Using Plant Stress Filters Purple Filer Tests (pdf) Introductory Activities for Color Filters Build a Filter Flag Build Cardboard Filter Glasses (template) Build a Filter Monocular using Plastic Film Canisters Infrared Goggles Activities using IR Goggles IR goggles for those wearing eye glasses Using IR googles
Plant Stress Detection Filters
Light Reflected from Green Leaves Light Reflected from Stressed Leaves Light Passing Through Purple Filters Using Purple Filters with Plants Example Photos Using Plant Stress Filters Purple Filer Tests (pdf) Introductory Activities for Color Filters Build a Filter Flag Build Cardboard Filter Glasses (template) Build a Filter Monocular using Plastic Film Canisters
Infrared Goggles
Activities using IR Goggles IR goggles for those wearing eye glasses Using IR googles
Light inside a digital camera Close up of visible and infrared light inside a digital camera Removing the infrared-blocking filter Example of Digital Image with an infrared-blocking filter, with the infrared-blocking filter removed, and with the infrared-blocking filter removed and the visible light blocked using an external filter. Using RGB to make millions of colors Getting access to the light measurements - working with pixels Documenting and Measuring Tool Taking Digital Photos for Measurements (pdf) MVHimage software for measuring distances and areas in digital images See the Digital Image Measuring Challenges Visible Light Sensor Near Infrared Light Sensor Polarized Light Sensor Movies: Butterfly Wings Movies: Plant Leaves Movies: Sky Time Lapse Movies Maps of spruce trees redistributing across North America as climate changed from the most recent Ice Age Maple tree greening up over two weeks in May Tides at an ocean and nearby estuary Thunderstorm passing through Digital Cameras for Time Lapse Use PicturePosts to Make Time Lapse Using PicturePost Pictures History of PicturePost Convert Any Camera to Time-Lapse CapableMaking Time Lapse Movies from a Series of Pictures Aerial Photography
Example of Digital Image with an infrared-blocking filter, with the infrared-blocking filter removed, and with the infrared-blocking filter removed and the visible light blocked using an external filter.
Documenting and Measuring Tool Taking Digital Photos for Measurements (pdf) MVHimage software for measuring distances and areas in digital images See the Digital Image Measuring Challenges Visible Light Sensor Near Infrared Light Sensor Polarized Light Sensor Movies: Butterfly Wings Movies: Plant Leaves Movies: Sky Time Lapse Movies Maps of spruce trees redistributing across North America as climate changed from the most recent Ice Age Maple tree greening up over two weeks in May Tides at an ocean and nearby estuary Thunderstorm passing through Digital Cameras for Time Lapse Use PicturePosts to Make Time Lapse Using PicturePost Pictures History of PicturePost Convert Any Camera to Time-Lapse CapableMaking Time Lapse Movies from a Series of Pictures Aerial Photography
Documenting and Measuring Tool
Taking Digital Photos for Measurements (pdf) MVHimage software for measuring distances and areas in digital images See the Digital Image Measuring Challenges
Visible Light Sensor
Near Infrared Light Sensor
Polarized Light Sensor
Movies: Butterfly Wings Movies: Plant Leaves Movies: Sky
Time Lapse Movies
Maps of spruce trees redistributing across North America as climate changed from the most recent Ice Age Maple tree greening up over two weeks in May Tides at an ocean and nearby estuary Thunderstorm passing through Digital Cameras for Time Lapse Use PicturePosts to Make Time Lapse Using PicturePost Pictures History of PicturePost Convert Any Camera to Time-Lapse CapableMaking Time Lapse Movies from a Series of Pictures
Maps of spruce trees redistributing across North America as climate changed from the most recent Ice Age Maple tree greening up over two weeks in May Tides at an ocean and nearby estuary Thunderstorm passing through
Digital Cameras for Time Lapse Use PicturePosts to Make Time Lapse
Convert Any Camera to Time-Lapse CapableMaking Time Lapse Movies from a Series of Pictures
Aerial Photography
Introduction to Light LEDs
