Eyes, Eyes, Eyes, Eyes, What do you See?What do you See?

A Story About the Colors We See

Rainbows are sunlight spread out into many colors by water

droplets.

Rainbows look like a multi-colored arch, with red on the outside and violet on the inside. A rainbow actually has a large variety of colors. We generally talk about seven colors: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet.

Sometimes, a secondary rainbow is seen. It is a second, fainter arch outside the primary arch. The colors are in the opposite order: violet on the outside and red on the inside.

A prism works the same way as a water drop. Light hits the prism, and the light is split into colors.

Red

Orange

Yellow

Green

Blue

                                           

Indigo

Violet

                                           

Can you see objects in our classroom that are…?

RED

YELLOW

ORANGE

GREEN

BLUEVIOLET