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Discovery Education

Discovery Education: Science of Everyday Life: Light and Shadow [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st
In this lesson plan, students experience how light interacts with the environment by investigating relationships between shadows and light. Students will experiment with light by observing how light travels through materials and distances.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Light Rays

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a quiz covering reflected, refracted, shadow, and camera rays.
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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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Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Colored Shadows

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Manipulate dual shadows and learn why different types of shadows are cast.
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Science Museum, London

Science Museum: 3 D Shadows

For Students 3rd - 8th
In this activity students can make a pair of coloured glasses, which allows them to see coloured shadows in 3D. Students will learn what shadows are and how they are produced.
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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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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Identifying the Sun as a Source of Light by Observing Shadows

For Teachers K - 1st
Students investigate shadows and discover that the sun is a source of light.
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E-learning for Kids

E Learning for Kids: Science: Denmark: What Are Light and Darkness?

For Students 1st - 3rd
In this module, students learn about the different sources of light, what causes darkness, and about shadows.
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E-learning for Kids

E Learning for Kids: Science: Scotland: Why Do Shadows Change During the Day?

For Students 1st - 3rd
William is a Scottish boy who is learning about the sun and how it casts shadows. Try to help him find out.
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University of Colorado

University of Colorado: Physics 2000: Cat Scans: Projecting Shadows

For Students 9th - 10th
This page and the three pages which follow discuss how X-ray technology can be used to produce an image of the human body. Discussion is understandable and highly intriguing. Several interactive animations allow the visitor to explore...
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Activity 1: Seeing Light and Color

For Students 9th - 10th
This activity focuses on using a box and a ball to experiment with light, shadows, and color. The goals are: Practice looking at light and shadow; Analyze how lighting influences the shape (soft/hard), color (hue) and value...
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Activity 4: Lighting a Character

For Students 9th - 10th
In this activity, return to your live action set but now swap out the orange for a toy character. Now try lighting your character in at least two different ways: Can you get them to cast a long shadow or look mysterious? Can you light...
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Light and Shadows

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This unit introduces the relationship between light, an object and the formation of shadows.
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Harvard University

Harvard Smithsonian: Everyday Classroom Tools

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
The focus of this series of lessons is to engage students in an exploration of the world around them. The emphasis is on inquiry as students learn about the earth, sun, light, shapes and more.
Interactive
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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Other

Atmospheric Optics

For Students 9th - 10th
Instead of just ooohing and aaahing over that beautiful sunset, impress your loved ones with an insightful and informed explanation of just what makes sunsets so interesting, and they will oooh and aaah at you too! At this site, you'll...
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: How We See Things

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this unit children learn that mirrors and shiny surfaces alter the direction in which light travels and that when they see objects light enters the eye. Children contrast reflection and shadow...
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Science Museum of Minnesota

Science Museum of Minnesota: Thinking Fountain: Opaque

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this lesson use objects found around the house or classroom to make sun prints. Link provided for the construction of a light island for classroom use.
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: If Superpowers Were Real: Invisibility

For Students 9th - 10th
What if invisibility wasn't just the stuff of epic comic book stories? Is it scientifically possible to be invisible? In this series, creator Joy Lin tackles six superpowers and reveals just how scientifically realistic they can be. [4:33]
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J. Paul Getty Trust

J. Paul Getty Museum: Drawings by Rembrandt and His Pupils

For Students 9th - 10th
Compare and contrast drawings by Rembrandt with those of his students to learn about his characteristic visual traits, especially his approach to line and his use of light and shadow to create the illusion of three dimensions.
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NASA

Nasa: Astronomy Picture of the Day: Jupiter

For Students 9th - 10th
A triple eclipse crossing the face of Jupiter on 2 Feb 98. This set of five images captures the passage of the shadows of Io, Callisto, and Ganymede across the face of Jupiter.
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E-learning for Kids

E Learning for Kids: Science: Winery: Why Can We See Through Some Objects but Not Others?

For Students 4th - 6th
Learn about the properties of materials in their interactions with light, including whether they are opaque, transparent, or translucent, and which of these produce shadows.
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Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: Ela Unit: Grade 1: Mooncake

For Teachers 1st
First graders learn factual information about the moon and how light creates shadows. Noting that authors oftentimes use their imaginations to create stories, 1st graders explore how misconceptions and misunderstandings can often be...
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Scholastic

Scholastic Instructor: Sun Sational Science

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Discover more about the sun when you visit this educational resource. The content of this site includes solar fun facts, experiments, and activities.

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