Mixing Colors

Lab Brief #1

🎯 Your mission

Set it up. Test it. Be amazed.

⚡ The twist

Nature loves to surprise the careful watcher.

What you'll learn

You can mix colors together to make new colors. Red and blue make purple!

Key words

color
What our eyes see when light of different kinds bounces off things.

Make a hypothesis first

Before you start: write down what you think will happen, and why.

Say your guess out loud — then find out if you were right.

Get ready

🧰 What you need

food coloring

⚠️ Safety first

Have an adult check your set-up before you start, and tidy everything away afterwards.

Step 1 of 4 · Read

Say the vocabulary words out loud. Can you repeat them?

Step 2 of 4 · Do

Mix two colors of paint together. What new color did you make?

Step 3 of 4 · Observe

Did anything change? Point to what is different.

Step 4 of 4 · Record

Point to the things you used in the activity.

Question 1 of 3

What color do you get mixing blue and yellow?

Question 2 of 3

What color do you get mixing red and yellow?

Question 3 of 3

What happens when you mix colors?

Mind = blown

🔬 The more you look, the more nature shows you.

Nice work!

You got 0 of 3 right.

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