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Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement (SMILE)

Smile: Light and Vision

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Lesson plan should be used for intermediate learners. Students work in pairs or groups to create a shoe box that will bend light.
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Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement (SMILE)

Smile: Light (Intermediate)

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Lesson plan for various group activities about light. Provides demonstration and directions for the plans along with assessment.
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Geography 4 kids

Geography4 kids.com: Waves and Particles

For Students 3rd - 8th
Understand how light moves in small particles in the electomagntic spectrum.
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: Light Waves, Visible and Invisible

For Students 9th - 10th
Lucianne Walkowicz shows us the waves just beyond our perception: microwaves, radio waves, x-rays and more. [5:58]
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: The Energy of Light

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
In this introduction to light energy, learners learn about reflection and refraction as they learn that light travels in wave form. Through hands-on activities, they see how prisms, magnifying glasses and polarized lenses work. They also...
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Physics Classroom

The Physics Classroom: Light Waves and Color Table of Contents

For Students 9th - 10th
Learners explore color, vision, and two-point source interference. The tutorial consists of lessons and problems to check for understanding.
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Ducksters

Ducksters: Physics for Kids: Behavior of Light as a Wave

For Students 1st - 9th
Kids learn about the behavior of light as a wave in the science of physics including reflection, refraction, and diffraction.
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Ducksters

Ducksters: Physics for Kids: Light Spectrum

For Students 1st - 9th
Kids learn about the science of the light spectrum. Wavelengths and frequencies of the electromagnetic waves including visible light, primary colors, and subtractive colors.
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Physics Classroom

The Physics Classroom: Refraction/ray Model of Light: Image Formation Revisited

For Students 9th - 10th
Students take an in-depth look at the physics behind image formation.
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Light Waves: Lesson 1

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson will introduce light waves and describe how a particle can travel as a photon or a wave. It is 1 of 4 in the series titled "Light Waves."
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Light Waves: Lesson 3

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson will introduce light waves and describe how a particle can travel as a photon or a wave. It is 3 of 4 in the series titled "Light Waves."
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Museum of Science

The Atom's Family: Radiometer

For Students 9th - 10th
Help Dracula find out about light waves by using a virtual radiometer.
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Physics Classroom

The Physics Classroom: The Electromagnetic and Visible Spectra

For Students 9th - 10th
A tutorial on the electromagnetic and visible spectra. Discusses dispersion and how perceptions of white and black are related to the visible light spectrum.
Article
Open Curriculum

Open Curriculum: Light as a Particle

For Students 9th - 10th
Students learn about the properties of light as a photon and the wave-particle duality.
eBook
Physics Classroom

The Physics Classroom: Waves: Behavior of Waves: Interference of Waves

For Students 9th - 10th
Students discover wave interference, the phenomenon that occurs when two waves meet while traveling along the same medium.
Article
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Wave Interference Review

For Students 9th - 10th
Review the key terms and skills related to wave interference, including how to predict wave interference patterns.
Unit Plan
TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: What Are Gravitational Waves?

For Students 9th - 10th
In September 2015, scientists witnessed something never seen before: two black holes colliding. Both about 30 times as big as our Sun, they had been orbiting each other for millions of years. A fraction of a second before the crash, they...
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: Particles and Waves: The Central Mystery of Quantum Mechanics

For Students 9th - 10th
One of the most amazing facts in physics is that everything in the universe, from light to electrons to atoms, behaves like both a particle and a wave at the same time. But how did physicists arrive at this mind-boggling conclusion? Chad...
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Space Telescope Science Institute

Amazing Space: Star Light Star Bright: Electromagnetic Radiation

For Students 9th - 10th
Use this tool to learn facts about the range of the electromagnetic spectrum, from radio waves to gamma rays.
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Refraction Extravaganza!

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders learn how light waves bend differently in different mediums.
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Other

University of Tennessee Knoxville: Diffraction and Interference

For Students 9th - 10th
Explains what diffraction and interference are, and what kinds of patterns are produced when light waves pass through a single slit, a double slit, or a diffraction grating. Includes three problems for students to try, with solutions...
Activity
Physics Central

Physics Central: Physics in the Living Room: Remote Control Tricks

For Students 6th - 8th
An easy experiment through which students learn about light rays and the electromagnetic spectrum. Requires a TV, its remote, and a hand-held, flat mirror.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Physical Science: Light

For Students 7th - 9th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Visible light and the different waves that make it up, infrared light and ultraviolet light.
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Synopsys

Synopsys: Optics: A Gentle Intro to Optical Design: Wave Particle Duality

For Students 9th - 10th
Discusses the manner in which light behaves as both wave and particle. This dualistic nature of light is one topic of many on the page.

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