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Snow Goggles and Limiting Sunlight Lesson PlanSnow Goggles and Limiting Sunlight Lesson Plan
Publisher
Messenger Education
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Grade
5th - 8th
Subjects
Science
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For Teacher Use
Duration
2 hrs
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Year
2010
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Snow Goggles and Limiting Sunlight

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Why would someone need contact lenses that offer UV protection? With a 28-page packet full of instruction and worksheets, students discuss solar radiation and its potential harm to eyes. They make snow goggles similar to ones hunters used in the late 1800s to protect themselves. Through discussion, class members learn how space explorers also have to protect their eyes. 

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CCSS: Adaptable

Concepts

solar radiation, vision, reflections

Additional Tags

science

Instructional Ideas

  • Discuss what happens to eyes at night and why hunters typically don't hunt at night

Classroom Considerations

  • Assumes learners understand how to convert between units
  • Some math involved (multiplication and division)
  • Best done on a somewhat sunny day
  • Part two in a series of four
  • This resource is only available on an unencrypted HTTP website.It should be fine for general use, but don’t use it to share any personally identifiable information

Pros

  • Activity is very thorough, providing teaching tips, worksheets, answer keys, related resources, and extensions
  • Materials are simple to gather, especially if using card stock

Cons

  • None

Common Core

RST.6-8.3

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