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The Tech Interactive

Tech Museum of Innovation: Common Light Sources

For Students 9th - 10th
While reviewing various light sources, the source of colors (white, red, yellow, blue) are also discussed. The bouncing of light, the matching of colors, and seeing colors are all highlighted.
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Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Berkeley Lab: Micro Worlds Project: Advanced Light Source

For Students 9th - 10th
A discussion of the Advanced Light Source (ALS) facility and its use in material analysis and medicine.
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Outdoor Light Sources and Their Attractibility to Nocturnal Insects

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A field investigation where students experiment with whether incandescent, fluorescent, or a no-light situation will attract the most nocturnal insects. Working in teams, students create a hypothesis and procedure to complete this field...
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Symmetry Magazine

Symmetry Magazine: Explain It in 60 Seconds: Light Sources

For Students 9th - 10th
Light sources are usually synchrotrons, accelerators that are used to produce intense light beams for research purposes. "Explain It In 60 Seconds" is an article series that aims to summarize in a few paragraphs the meaning of different...
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Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Project Ideas: Grow Fungi That Fires at Light Sources

For Students 9th - 10th
In this science fair project, grow a culture of Pilobolus fungus and experiment with its ability to shoot spore sacs at light sources. The Science Buddies project ideas are set up consistently beginning with an abstract, objective, and...
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Florida State University

Florida State University: Light and Color: Sources of Visible Light

For Students 9th - 10th
This site discusses primary lighting sources and gives information on the different properties and spectral characteristics of each. Also includes links to some interactive Java applets.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Let's Explore Light: Lesson Plan

For Teachers K - 1st
Students will use observations and evidence to describe that objects can only be seen if they are illuminated by an external light source or give off their own light. Media is used to supplement student observations and encourage...
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E-learning for Kids

E Learning for Kids: Science: Denmark: How Does Light Help Us See Things?

For Students 4th - 6th
Isabella and Amalie are in Copenhagen, and they saw a periscope in the water. Join them, and find out what this is all about. This module discusses how to use a periscope, what light sources are, and how light impacts shadows.
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Science Buddies

Science Buddies: How Does the Intensity of Light Change With Distance?

For Students 9th - 10th
How far would you have to travel so that the light of the full sun would provide "daylight" no brighter than twilight on Earth? This project describes a method to verify the inverse square law: how light, sound, electrical signals, and...
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Study Jams! Science: Energy, Light and Sound: Light

For Students 3rd - 7th
A video and a short quiz on the basic concepts and vocabulary for understanding light energy.
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Project Britain

Primary Homework Help: Light and Shadows Quiz

For Students 3rd - 8th
This resource provides information about light and shadows. In addition, there is a short quiz that can be taken.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Explore How Light Is Needed to See Things: Interactive Lesson

For Students K - 1st
Explore how light moves and describe how an object in a dark space only becomes visible when light moves into the space and illuminates it. Interactive activities, time-lapse videos, and images are used to enhance student observations as...
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Holt Physics: Brightness of Light

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This probeware version of the Skills Practice Lab Brightness of Light from the chapter Light and Reflection uses a light probe to measure the intensity of light at different distances from a light source.
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Investigating Light Properties

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Learners will investigate how light travels and what it does when it hits an object. Light sources will be used to represent a beam of light. Students will direct the beam toward various objects and materials. Through observations...
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Other

Libris Design: Lighting for Libraries [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Overall lighting concerns and issues are addressed in this .pdf document. Must-reading for those involved in building a new facility or redesigning an old one.
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Other

Libris Design: Lighting for Libraries [Pdf]

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Overall lighting concerns and issues are addressed in this .pdf document. Must-reading for those involved in building a new facility or redesigning an old one.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Pictures Please: Traveling Light

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
In this lesson, learners learn that light travels in a straight line from a light source and that ray diagrams help us understand how an image will be created by a lens. In the accompanying activity, students explore the concepts behind...
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Fundamentals of Light

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Students investigate the fundamentals of light including its source, how it is defined for measurements, how we perceive color, and the situations that make an...
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My Science Site

Light and Optics

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource provides information on light as well as links to additional sites on light and optics.
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Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Where Is the Player?

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Examine how multiple light sources produce shadows of differing darkness and length. Move a player (with four light sources) around the field until your image matches the five other images on the page so you can identify where the player...
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eSchool Today

E School Today: Your Cool Facts and Tips on Light Pollution

For Students 4th - 7th
What is light pollution and why should we care about it? Learn what it is, the different types, sources of this type of pollution, the impact it has, and ways to combat it.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Spectroscopy

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students learn how using a spectrograph helps us understand the composition of light sources. Using simple materials and holographic diffraction gratings (available online at a variety of sites, including Edmund Scientifics and the...
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American Association of Physics Teachers

Com Padre Digital Library: Open Source Physics: Schwarzschild Light Wavefront

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Apply the Schwarzschild metric to the paths light travels when it radiates in every direction near a black hole. Adjust the position of the light source and observe the effective potential of the paths.
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Energy: Machines, Motion and Light

For Students 9th - 10th
An introductory lesson describing the definition of energy, and highlighting different sources of usable energy.

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