The Magic School Bus: Makes a Rainbow!!

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written by joanna cole and illustrated by bruce deakin in miss frizzle's class a good question can lead to anything, take the other day for example, we were all sitting in a classroom making

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s, Why are rainbows red on the outside and violet on the inside Ralphie asked is it because the colors of the rainbow come out according to the length of the light waves. Arnold responded that red is the longest wavelength and violet is the shortest. What the hell was Arnold talking about? Wait until you see my rainbow Carlos.

He said Carlos was making a rainbow by putting different colored candy wrappers on a bunch of lanterns, but you need color to make a rainbow, Dorothy Anne said waving her paintbrush, not candy wrappers or lanterns, but my colored candy wrappers give color coloring the light, said carlos dream in carlos said d.a color is color and light is light oh yes, I will show you the color look said carlos shining a red light in dorothean's rainbow suddenly we heard strange things and beeps coming from from inside miss frizzle's closet what was making all that noise, let's check "He came out," Wanda said as she headed towards the door.

Wanda, we can't go in there, Arnold said, but Wanda was more curious than afraid. She slowly opened the door and there was Miss Frizzle playing on the most amazing pinball machine we had ever seen. I made this machine myself, Miss Frizzle, she told us that you play by activating the panoramic post-fire which sends a burst of white light, better known as normal everyday light, into the machine and then you try to make a rainbow with a white light. Hold it, Keisha shouted. Rainbows are all. different colors how can you make a rainbow with white light? I'll be happy to show it to you keisha miss frizzle said but i only have one game left to do it if i can light up all six colors of the rainbow i can keep the machine but if i lose said miss frizzle unfortunately they will take this machine away from me we wondered who would take it but miss frizzle seemed so upset that no one had the heart to ask at that moment miss frizzle had that funny look in her eyes class single file she said it was time for a field trip as always arnold tried to get out of there and to his surprise, Miss Frizzle said she could stay buckled up in class and get ready for a colorful experience Liz said Miss Frizzle would take it but just before we took off Miss Frizzle got off the bus and the next thing we knew was that we had shrunk and were flying on a small bus towards the classroom, then the bus turned into a small ball of white light and flew through the glass of the pinball machine we could.

Don't believe it, we were inside the machine surrounded by mirrors and a lot of colorful objects and a prism, how is a rainbow made? Ask Carlos looking at the prism and mirrors inside the game by introducing colored light into the colored eyes, Miss Frizzle said pointing. to the eyes on the scoreboard the red light has to go to the red eye the orange light to the orange eye yellow light to the yellow eye and the six colors to the six colored eyes and you only have six chances to do it to show us how the game worked miss frizzle withdrew the panoramic pulse pump as she released it a ball of white light exploded down the duct into the completely cold machine wanda said the white light then hit a mirror at the top of the duct and bounced off a special piece of glass called a prism , we all expected the white light to come out on the other side of the prism, but it didn't.

Instead, six different colors came out: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and violet, and all six colors were coming directly at us. everyone fell to the ground and the colored lights shot right over our heads as the lights hit the black wall behind us they disappeared oh no Phoebe said none of the colored lights entered the colored eyes Miss Frizzle used the instant replay screen to show us what had happened, I see, said Keisha, the white light went up the duct and bounced off a mirror, yes, said Tim, then it entered the prism and came out like all the colors of the rainbow, he added, then the colors must have come from the white light, concluding.

Wanda now we knew that to make a rainbow we had to place the colored lights that came out of the prism into the colored eyes. We were ready, but we only have five chances left to place the six colors on the eyes. Worried, Phoebe, I think. You have to keep the colored light bouncing off things until it reaches the right colored eye. Arnold said the white light bounced off the mirror. Wanda added that maybe the colored lights will bounce too well thinking Wanda said Carlos. We could line up a mirror to bounce the red light into the red eye, but just as Miss Frizzle was about to send white light pulse number two of the session, we heard a voice, it was Mr.

Rule, our director, Miss. Frizzle, sent Arnold to keep Mr. Rule busy while we tried. To win the game, white light pulse number two is coming towards you, Miss Frizzle said, she released the panning pulse pump as the white light passed through the prism, we pushed the mirror into the path of the red light, but the red light not only did it hit the mirror it hit the mirror a red fruit and then it bounced off the red eye then we put a mirror in what we thought was the perfect place to bounce the orange light coming out of the prism off the orange eye torn letter lady frizzle said carlos white light pulse number three up the tree said miss frizzle releasing the white light the white light went up the parachute crossed the prism and divided into six colors the orange light bounced off the mirror just as we had planned but instead of entering the orange eye the The orange light hit a green clover and disappeared Where did the orange light go?

Wanda shouted then to everyone's surprise the green light that had come out of the prism with the orange light hit the same clover and did not disappear at all, but bounced off the green eye hmm red light red fruit green light green clover d.a I was thinking a lot when We saw something, let's say green, he asked Miss Frizzle, is it green by any chance? Because only green light bounces off green objects and into our eyes, Miss Frizzle nodded and smiled now. We knew that light bounces off mirrors and things, red light bounces off red fruit, green light bounces off green clover, yellow light bounces off yellow banana, but we still had to place the orange, blue lights , yellow and violet in the eyes of the correct color and We only had three pulses of white light left.

We need to sink two at once or we are sunk. Carlos said, how about orange and blue? Phoebe suggested, they look good together. We all agreed, so we lined up as many orange and blue things as possible. I'm going to try to bounce the orange light that came out of the prism into the orange eye and the blue light into the blue eye at the same time, white light pulse number four went out the door, Miss Frizzle said, the white light went up the parachute and hit the mirror and bounced off the prism like before it came out like the six colors of the rainbow, the orange light bounced off the mirror, hit one orange, then the other orange and bounced right into the orange eye, bingos yelled Ralphie at the same time the blue light bounced off. from a mirror hit the blue fish and bounced back towards carlos and his blue sweatshirt why did carlos groan as he got closer and closer at the last second he ducked the blue light whizzed over his head he crashed into the yellow bus behind him and disappeared while Mr.

Rule had taken Arnold to the library to look for Miss Frizzle. Poor Arnold tried to take Mr. Rule's mind off Miss Frizzle by reading a book. A blue fish is blue because it only bounces off blue light that we see when we reach our eyes at that moment. Arnold's stomach growled, well thinking Arnold said Mr. Rule, maybe Miss Frizzle is in the cafeteria, back inside the machine. We were all prepared to bounce the yellow light off the yellow eye. We were also going to try again to bounce the blue light off the blue eye. white light pulse number five ready to joke he said miss frizzle this time when the blue light came out of the prism and headed towards carlos he was ready for it no way i'm going to duck this time he said and he didn't the blue light bounced off his sweatshirt and in the blue eye at the same time the yellow light bounced off the mirror it hit the yellow banana it hit the yellow bus and bounced off the yellow eye the last color we had to put in one eye was violet and we only had one light the pulse went away pressure was on the last white light in sight said miss frizzle as she released the pan button it's rainbow time the white light bounced off the prism and split into six colors the violet light then hit the mirror it bounced off a bunch of purple grapes and he headed towards the yellow bus oh no, no the yellow bus cried Keisha if violet hits the yellow one he will disappear said Carlos and the game will end tim cried but suddenly d.a reached into his backpack and held up a violet book in front of him. yellow bus the violet light bounced off the violet book and off the violet eye we had done it, we had made the rainbow now miss frizzle could keep her pinball machine okay liz said carlos getting on the bus with the others let's go .

Outta here, Liz tried and tried, but no matter what she did, she couldn't get the bus out of the pinball machine. Just then we all heard a familiar voice from the other side of the door. Mr. Rule was back. Miss Frizzle hurried out of the closet. and she joined Arnold and Mr. Rule in the classroom. Good morning, Mr. Rule, she said cheerfully and then turned to Arnold. I think I left my color notes in the closet, let's see if you can get them out. Okay, Arnold hurried into the closet to see what was going on. about what's going on there asked arnold as she walked into the closet we can't get out said carlos no said arnold you got in there turning into a light arnold you're a genius said carlos we go in as a light we'll get out She turned off her light, Liz pressed some buttons and turned the bus into a light white, but when he tried to get us out of the machine, the bus hit the mirror and bounced directly into the prism.

The next thing we knew there were six of us each. in all the colors great said ralphie i can be my own basketball team the rest of us didn't think it was very funny what are we going to do how are we going to get out of here wanda cried wanda wasn't the only one who was worried we were all wondering if there would be six from each of us, one for each color of the rainbow forever, then Dorothy Ann had a very good idea: if the prism splits white light into colors, what happens when the colored light returns through the prism? came in, we decided to try it, fasten your seatbelts, Arnold said, I'm going to hit the fin and throw you all back towards the prism, like he planned, Arnold threw us back into the prism, we went into six different colors and came out through the other side like a white light, it was amazing, then Liz drove the bus up and out of the pinball machine, she opened the door, Arnold walked in, Carlos yelled, Arnold opened the closed door and we flew into the classroom and out through the window open when we were.

Safely off the bus, we were back to normal, we ran and found Miss Frizzle and Mr. Rule, we figured it out. "Miss Frizzle," Carlos said, "all the colors of the rainbow are hidden in ordinary light, which means that white light is simply filled with the agreed upon color." dorothy anne talking about color and light Mr. Rules said that Miss Frizzle you made the rainbow in fact I didn't say Miss Frizzle so the pinball machine is mine all mine exclaimed Mr. Rule we were very surprised to find out that it was Mr. Rule, who would have gotten the machine of pinball if we hadn't made the rainbow?

Actually, it's not yours. Miss Frizzle said. I didn't make the rainbow, but my class did. Are you sure I can't have the machine? Mr. Rule asked. He looked very disappointed I'm sure, said Miss Frizzle, but you can come here and play it whenever you want, he actually said Mr Rule with the smile, can I play it now? Absolutely, said Miss Frizzle, you look like you could use some light entertainment. .