Physics Classroom
The Physics Classroom: Refraction/ray Model of Light: Total Internal Reflection
Through illustrated examples, students explore the physics phenomenon of total internal reflection when light travels through several medium boundaries.
Math Science Nucleus
Math/science Nucleus: Light Magic
This animation discusses light and the properties of light in a storybook format. The animations cover the colors of the rainbow (ROYGBIV) along with prisms, light waves, reflection, and refraction.
Teachers TryScience
Teachers Try Science: Where There's Light, There's Hot Food!!!
This unit helps young scholars learn to apply the concept of solar energy conservation. They are introduced to angles and their effect on the amount of light reflected, and they will also design, construct, manipulate, critique, evaluate...
Scholastic
Scholastic: Study Jams! Science: Energy, Light and Sound: Light
A video and a short quiz on the basic concepts and vocabulary for understanding light energy.
Project Britain
Primary Homework Help: Light and Shadows Quiz
This resource provides information about light and shadows. In addition, there is a short quiz that can be taken.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Physical Science: Visible Light and Matter
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] How visible light interacts with matter and classifying matter in terms of light.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Physical Science: Law of Reflection
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Reflection and how it produces an image, regular and diffuse reflection and the law of reflection.
South Carolina Educational Television
Know It All Media: Light and Color
Why do we see certain colors? This interactive animation demonstrates the concept of the visible spectrum, and how we see the different colors of the rainbow.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Physical Science: Reflection of Light
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Considers the reflection of light from both smooth and rough surfaces and the law of reflection.
Georgia State University
Georgia State University: Hyper Physics: Behavior of Incident Light
This site from Georgia State University is an indexing page for several other pages on the topic of reflection. Topics are treated in an understandable manner and utilize meaningful graphics.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: How Light Travels
In this lesson, the students will be experimenting to show how light shines in a straight line. They will also be experimenting to see how light reflects using mirrors. The students will be working in cooperative learning groups to carry...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Plix: Wave Interactions: Law of Reflection
[Free Registration/Login Required] Move the light source to see what happens to the reflected ray as you change the angle of the incident ray.
Physics Classroom
The Physics Classroom: The Law of Reflection
The law of reflection is discussed and explained, accompanied by an animation depicting this law. Includes a list of links to detailed information about certain types of reflections.
Curated OER
Ray Optics, Light Reflection
Site provides a diagram as well as a scientific explanation of light reflection. Includes links to ray optics, light and physics.
E-learning for Kids
E Learning for Kids: Science: Loch Ness: What Happens to Light When It Is Reflected?
Ian and his family are on holiday near Loch Ness. Find out about the Loch Ness monster, and learn about light and reflection.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Light & Sound, Light Reflection Relay
In this exploration, students will investigate how light reflects off smooth surfaces, learn about angles of reflection, and apply that knowledge in a relay experiment.
My Science Site
B J Mst: Behaviour of Light
This resource explores light reflection and refraction by providing colorful illustrations and examples.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Needing Illumination: Investigating Light
This is the first lesson of this unit to introduce light. In this lesson, students learn the five words that describe how light interacts with objects: "transparent," "translucent," "opaque," "reflection" and "refraction."
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Holt Physics: Brightness of Light
This probeware version of the Skills Practice Lab Brightness of Light from the chapter Light and Reflection uses a light probe to measure the intensity of light at different distances from a light source.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Investigating Light Properties
Students will investigate how light travels and what it does when it hits an object. Light sources will be used to represent a beam of light. Students will direct the beam toward various objects and materials. Through observations...
E-learning for Kids
E Learning for Kids: North Sea: How Do We Measure the Intensity of Light?
Students learn in this lesson about light intensity and the units used to measure it, the reflection of light, and how the amount of light can be increased using more lightbulbs.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Investigating Light: A Form of Energy You Can See
Students will investigate how light is a form of energy that travels as waves away from the source. The basis for this instructional activity is taken from the Houghton Mifflin science curriculum. In the instructional activity...
Other
Easyphysics: Chapter 10 Light Waves
Learners investigate light waves. Some topics examined are reflection of light, illuminance, and refraction of light. The resource includes example problems with solutions and a chapter quiz.
University of Illinois
University of Illinois Urbana Champaign: Light and Optics
Rainbows and sunsets are called "atmospheric optics". They can be caused by light being absorbed, reflected, scattered, refracted, or diffracted by particles in the atmosphere. Learn all about different atmospheric optics along with...