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What Color is the Ocean? A STEM Spectrophotometer Activity - Lesson Plans
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Grade Level: 6-8, 9-12

In this activity, you will use an inexpensive spectrophotometer* to test how light at different visible wavelengths (blue, green, red) is transmitted, or absorbed, through four different colored water samples.


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