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Light

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students examine how light waves travel. For this properties of light lesson, students observe how light travels in water, how light is reflected and refracted, and how light is pure energy.
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The Technology of Light

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students study the different types of light bulbs. For this exploratory lesson students complete several activities and create an electrical circuit.
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The Improvement of the Electric Light Bulb

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students study how the first electric light was made and the history behind it.  In this electricity activity students create their own light bulb.
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Lemon Light

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students engage in a lesson which model different types of light refraction. They perform an experiment which uses lasers, jello and wax paper to illustrate how light refracts.
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Light

For Students Pre-K - 1st
In this light sources worksheet, students examine the 8 pictured items and identify those items that are luminescent by circling them.
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Topics in Environmental Science

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students discover topics in environmental science. In this science lesson plan, students build a model to simulate the greenhouse effect and analyze and interpret data, especially the results of introducing pollutants into nature.
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Let There Be Light!

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders conduct experiments involving reflected light, absorption of light, refracted light, and colors absorbed by light. In this light lesson plan, 4th graders write about the results of their experiments as well.
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Pictures Please: Traveling Light

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students investigate how light travels. For this optic science lesson plan, students discover that light travels in a straight line through a laser pointer demonstration. Students also study how pinhole cameras work by considering how...
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Light and Dark

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this recognizing things that provide light instructional activity, students cut out only the pictures that give off light and paste them in order from brightest to least bright. Students show 4 answers.
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The Light for Sight

For Students 8th - 10th
In this eye and light worksheet, students make models of the eye using black and white cardboard, a light source, and a bowl of water. They explain how each part of the model corresponds to a part of the eye. Students answer 4 discussion...
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Applied Science - Technology (3A) Pre Lab

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders discuss electric currents. In this circuit lesson, 3rd graders create a picture of a battery circuit and a light bulb. They show the positive and negative charge and the flow of electrons. 
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Bubble-ology

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students observe the visible spectrum while observing light hitting the surface of bubbles. They blow large bubbles and observe how the colors change.
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Energy: Light -- Spinning Color Wheel

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders make spinning color wheels to determine how energy effects what colors look like. They paint or color a color wheel with the seven colors of the spectrum. Next, the spin the wheel to determine what happens. In order to...
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Fluorescence

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Here are some instructions for leading learners through a hands-on activity for investigating ultraviolet radiation. First, introduce them to light and refraction. Then introduce them to the electromagnetic spectrum. Finally, give...
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Antigravity Mirror

For Teachers 5th - 9th
Is it a bird? Is it a plane? It's super student! Physical science stars can fly during a unit on light as they see the reflection of one leg in a mirror, behind which the other holds them up. 
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Impact of Inventors

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students examine the impact of inventors on our world. In this science lesson plan, students are given a time line of the invention of familiar objects. Students then evaluate some kid inventors and decide...
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The Nature of Electromagnetic Waves

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
Imagine a presentation that covers electromagnetic waves, electromagnetic radiation, radio waves, microwaves, the visible light spectrum, UV, X-ray, and gamma rays. Here's one. Packed with facts and colorful illustrations, 11-slide...
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Light and Temperature Interaction

For Teachers 9th
The colors most noticed and characteristic of particular weather patterns are listed on each of these slides.   The reasons for each chemical changing the appearance of leaves are given and the effect of particular climate changes...
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Stars, Galaxies and the Universe

For Students 7th - 8th Standards
It takes 225 million years for our sun to travel around the galaxy. The presentation covers astronomical units, light years, telescopes, types of stars, the life cycle of a star, and types of galaxies. This is the last lesson in a...
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Assignment # 1: Merry-Go-Round Story

For Teachers 9th
Class members use e-mail and the merry-go-round story format to create a science fiction story. Each writer begins by selecting one of three prompts, crafting the introductory paragraph and sending the paragraph to the next person on the...
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Pupil

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Give pupils a magnifier, a mirror, and a flashlight so that they can examine their own pupils. As they shine a light on their eyes, the light is shone on how this structure dilates and contracts to control how much is allowed into the...
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Sensing the Invisible: The Herschel Experiment

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Learners of light will construct a contraption in which light is passed through a prism and shone into a box. The temperatures at different points along the path and outside of the path of light. The intent is to imitate William...
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Seein' Double, Seein' Double

For Teachers K - 2nd
By using the Internet, hands-on activities, video, and cooperative learning, pupils look into the conditions in which light casts shadows on objects. The lesson includes fabulous hands-on activities, art projects, worksheets, and reource...
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Polarized Sunglasses

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Reflected waves of light move within a plane, and because of this, polarizing materials can reduce the glare our eyes see. This resource explains how to set up a demonstration of this effect. Consider it for use in your physical science...

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