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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.
Activity
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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Physics Classroom

The Physics Classroom: Two Point Source Interference

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson from the Glenbrook South High School discusses two-point source interference. It gives detail on the difference between constructive and destructive interference, what a two-point source interference is and what happens when...
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Physics Classroom

The Physics Classroom: Light Waves/color: Two Point Source Interference Pattern

For Students 9th - 10th
Students investigate the underlying causes of two-point source interference pattern. They also discover that the spatial separation between the antinodal and nodal lines in the pattern is related to the wavelength of the waves.
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Physics Classroom

The Physics Classroom: Light Waves and Color: The Path Difference

For Students 9th - 10th
After looking at a representative two-point source interference pattern with accompanying order numbers, students investigate the rationale behind the numbering system, and develop some mathematical equations that relate the features of...
Article
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...
Lesson Plan
US National Archives

Nara: Teaching With Documents: Telephone and Light Patent Drawings

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A lesson plan about Alexander Graham Bell's patent for the telephone and Thomas Edison's patent for the electric lamp. Contains good background information and historically pertinent documents. It also discusses the role corporations...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Building a Fancy Spectrograph

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students create and decorate their own spectrographs using simple materials and holographic diffraction gratings. A holographic diffraction grating acts like a prism, showing the visual components of light. After building the...
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Utah Education Network

Uen: I'm So Bright! I Wear My Shades Indoors!

For Teachers 6th
This lesson engages students in learning about light through multiple sources. Students will learn how light is produced, reflected, refracted, and separated. Students will communicate their findings through an independent project that...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: A Spectral Mystery

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students use the spectrograph from the "Building a Fancy Spectrograph" activity to gather data about light sources. Using their data, they make comparisons between different light sources and make conjectures about the composition of a...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Using a Fancy Spectrograph

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students use the spectrograph from the "Building a Fancy Spectrograph" activity to gather data about different light sources. Using the data, they make comparisons between the light sources and make conjectures about the composition of...
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Exploratorium

Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Bronx Cheer Bulb

For Students 9th - 10th
In this activity observe how light sources flash as you give them a raspberry. As you complete the activity, make a conclusion about what is wiggling the lights or you.
Lesson Plan
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Energy Conservation

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students are introduced to the idea that energy use impacts the environment and our wallets. They discuss different types of renewable and nonrenewable energy sources, as well as the impacts of energy consumption. Through a series of...
Article
Cornell Lab of Ornithology

Habitat Network: Don't Be an Ecological Trap

For Students 9th - 10th
With the help of some economics metaphors, Habitat Network delves into the scary-sounding "ecological trap" and helps bring it to light.
Primary
Digital Public Library of America

Dpla: Women's Suffrage: Campaign for the Nineteenth Amendment

For Students 9th - 10th
This set of primary sources uses photos, advertisements, maps, and other documents to shed light on that struggle toward the Nineteenth Amendment. Includes a teacher's guide.
Unit Plan
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Earth's Albedo and Global Warming

For Students 9th - 10th
In this interactive activity adapted from NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey, learn about Earth's albedo (the ratio of reflected vs. incident solar radiation), how pollution alters albedo, and how ice-albedo feedback may accelerate...
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US National Archives

Nara: The 1906 San Francisco Earthquake and Fire

For Students 9th - 10th
The National Archives and Records Administration sheds new light on the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake through this site's use of primary source documents. A series of handwritten and typed documents are provided that look at the...
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Utah Education Network

Uen: Our Friend, the Sun

For Teachers 3rd
Understand the role of the sun as the source of heat and light for living things on earth.
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Exploratorium

Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Pinhole Magnifier

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore properties of light by making a pinhole magnifier using simple materials and a light source.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Completing the Circuit

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
In the everyday electrical devices we use - calculators, remote controls and cell phones - a voltage source such as a battery is required to close the circuit and operate the device. In this hands-on activity, students use a battery,...
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Other

Art Instruction Schools: Fundamentals of Art

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn how Art Instruction Schools--a school for future illustrators--grounds its students in the fundamentals of art. Click through a series of illustrated lesson overviews on basic shapes, lines, tone and value, light source,...
Article
The Washington Post

Washington Post: Special Reports: Revisiting Watergate

For Students 9th - 10th
A retrospective of the Watergate crisis, compiled from the resources of the newspaper largely responsible for first bringing the crimes of the Nixon administration to light. Includes a chronology, an analysis of key players, links to...

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