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Curriculum

Light and Shadow (Topic D)

General Learner Expectation 4-9

Method(s) of Assessment
ICT Outcomes
Introduction
Describing and experimenting with light and shadows can be cumbersome in a classroom.  These activities will allow the demonstration of specific light attributes and facilitate discussion about them.
Activity 1
How light travels.  Light travels in a straight line.  But it is also a wave.  What does this look like?
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Activity 2

The interaction of light with different materials.  Learn about the concepts of opaqueness, reflection, reflection, refraction and refraction into a spectrum.  What happens when a light strikes different objects?

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Activity 3

Casting Shadows.  Explore how the angle of a light source determines the shadow that an object emits.

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Developed with Peggy Kemp and Scott Smathers, 2007
   
© inlets 2007