Prism Lab - 2014

Discovering Color With a Prism

Students explored what happened to light as it passed through a prism. They experimented with white light from a flashlight. They discovered that white light is composed of a continuous band of colors. The band of colors appears in the same pattern as the colors of a rainbow. Students learned that prisms separate visible light into its component colors (ROY G BIV) -- (Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo, & Violet).