The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights

Children are curious about the world and about how things work. Nature's variety provides a wonderful opportunity to explore similarities and differences, to accept differences as natural and inevitable, and to celebrate the beauty of all kinds of diversity.

To sharpen children's awareness of color and all of its subtle gradations

Windows on Beginning Science: Light, Color, and Shadows, by Joan Westley (optional-see Resources section)

Windows on Beginning Science presents several activities related to color that are suitable for children from pre-kindergarten to second grade. Each activity provides a detailed description of materials needed, skills being developed, and ways of guiding and extending children's thinking and actions. This is an excellent resource for the science-phobic teacher. We have included a few activities from this helpful text.