1.  First, you need to gather all your supplies together. 2.  Next, take about six straws and cut them in half.  Bundle the pieces together and wrap a piece of tape tightly around the straws.  You have just created a model of a compound insect eye! 3.  Take a look at the room around you through your "insect eye."  What do you see?   Do things look different?  They should!  Humans see the world in one big connected picture, but many insects can only see things divided into thousands of parts, depending upon the number of facets (or straws in your case!) that make up their eye.   Pretty neat, isn't it? 4.  Now take your piece of red plastic and look through it at the people or things around you.   Look at a red object or red writing.  Harder to see these things, isn't it?   This part of the activity is to show you that although insects can see many colors, most insects cannot see the color red.  So looking through the red plastic helps to make red objects almost invisible and your eyes even more like an insect's eyes!