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Teach Engineering: Exploring Light: Absorb, Reflect, Transmit or Refract? ActivityTeach Engineering: Exploring Light: Absorb, Reflect, Transmit or Refract? Activity
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Teach Engineering: Exploring Light: Absorb, Reflect, Transmit or Refract?

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In a hands-on way, students explore light's properties of absorption, reflection, transmission and refraction through various experimental stations within the classroom. To understand absorption, reflection and transmission, they shine flashlights on a number of preselected objects. To understand refraction, students create indoor rainbows. An understanding of the fundamental properties of light is essential to designing an invisible laser security system.

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absorption, refraction, transmission, wavelength, stem, lasers

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light properties, visual spectrum, integrated teaching and learning program and laboratory, teachengineering, flashlight, laser, rainbow, reflection
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Grade
6th - 8th
Subjects
Science
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Activities & Projects
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For Administrator Use
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Lexile Measures
0L

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