Grow Up Great
Note: Try to plan this activity for a bright, sunny day.
A rainbow is a curved arc of light of many colors across the sky. Rainbows occur after a storm, when the Sun begins to shine while the air is still filled with raindrops. Rainbows are caused by the sunlight bending as it shines through drops of water. The raindrops act like miniature prisms and bend the different colors that are found in sunlight. The light spreads out into an arc-shaped band of colors that are reflected back to us, and we see that band of colors as a rainbow.
Sunlight looks white, but it actually contains many colors mixed together. When sunshine hits water or raindrops, all of the colors get separated. A rainbow is actually a full circle of light, but because we are looking at it from the ground, we can only see an arc of the rainbow. The lower the Sun is in the sky, the higher the arc of the rainbow will be. Sometimes, we can see a double rainbow. The inner rainbow is brighter and has a red band on the top and a blue band on the bottom; in the outer rainbow, the colors are reversed!
A rainbow is a curved arc of light of many colors across the sky. Rainbows occur after a storm, when the Sun begins to shine while the air is still filled with raindrops. Rainbows are caused by the sunlight bending as it shines through drops of water. The raindrops act like miniature prisms and bend the different colors that are found in sunlight. The light spreads out into an arc-shaped band of colors that are reflected back to us, and we see that band of colors as a rainbow.
These lessons are aligned with the Common Core State Standards ("CCSS"). The CCSS provide a consistent, clear understanding of the concepts and skills children are expected to learn and guide teachers to provide their students with opportunities to gain these important skills and foundational knowledge.[2]
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