Rainbow Factory Challenge
Split light, mix colours and fool your eyes!
Pairs split white light into rainbows, test which materials let light through, bend light with a giant Fresnel lens, mix coloured light and paint, make sun prints and fool their eyes with illusions and 3D glasses — finding out how light, eyes and brain work together.
K–6 + HPGE
Hands-on
Investigations
Inquiry Based
Primary School Workshops
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What's In Rainbow Factory Challenge?
A hands-on workshop about light and colour: where do colours come from? Every student investigates with a challenge card matched to your stage.
Every session opens with a surprise trick of the light that gets the whole class asking questions, and ends with teams sharing what they discovered about light and colour.
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Inside · pairs · photo-backed
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Year Levels
K–6 + HPGE
Duration
60 or 90 minutes
Group Size
Up to 32
Price (incl GST)
$690 (60 min)
$21.56 per student
$790 (90 min)
$24.69 per student
Differentiated challenge cards matched to your class
Choose experiences to match your class interests
Predict, test, observe and explain
THE CRAZY SCIENTIST DIFFERENCE
Multiple Investigations. Learning Matched to Every Stage
Differentiated challenges and syllabus-connected learning across the workshop.
Explore the learning at your stage.
Early Stage 1 — Rainbow Factory Challenge
Early Stage 1 cards help students explore colour and light and describe what they see.
Relevant NSW Science & Technology outcomes (2024)
Every group works from a Early Stage 1 challenge card written for these outcomes.
✓ STe-SCI-01 — Living things have characteristics that help them survive in their environment
Identify and use tools to aid and extend sensory observations
See the Science in Action
LEARNING BEYOND THE WOW
What Students learn & How We Support Teachers
What Your Students Will Learn
Identify sources of light
Split white light into colours
Mix colours of light and paint and compare the results
Explain how our eyes and brain help us see colour
Make a colour spinner and predict the colour it will blend to
Differentiated challenges and syllabus-connected learning across the workshop.
How we support teachers
Challenge cards for every stage, used by
students during the session.
Classroom follow-up experiments to keep the learning going
Risk assessment, Working With Children Check and public liability insurance details, sent before your visit
Thinking skills students practise
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Workshop Requirements & Bookings
Everything You Need to Know
Up to 32 students per session
Group Size
60 minutes
Session Time
A classroom with tables for 16 pairs. Everything runs inside.
Space & Setup
All materials, equipment, safety glasses and stage challenge cards.
What we Provide
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30+ Years Teaching Science
Experienced science teacher designing activities that keep children engaged, involved and learning.
We Bring Everything
Experiments, equipment and materials come with us — you just provide the space and the kids.
Tailored to Your School
Activities are adjusted to suit your class’s stage
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