Make A Rainbow From Light, Water and A Mirror

 Make a rainbow.

You will need a tray, a mirror, a torch and white paper. Fill the tray half full of water and place the mirror into the water at an angle. Shine the torch into the water at the mirror. Hold the white paper above and you will see a rainbow on the paper. You might need to move the paper until you catch the rainbow. 

You can talk about how the light is refracted by the water. The light is made up of colours that break up when the light passes through a substance such as water that bends the light. The light is shone into the water and bounces off the mirror and comes back to us broken up into the colour particles due to the water. 

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