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Bone Stress

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Lighten up a bit with this activity! Use an old-fashioned overhead projector to shine light through a pair of polarizing filters. Place a stressed plastic object in between and display the colors of light waves revealed! Rotate the...
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The Shadow Knows - Creating Shadows

For Teachers K - 1st
Young learners recognize a shadow and witness how shadows occur when light is blocked. They access streamed video, standard video, and websites in order to engage in their study of how light is naturally blocked to create shadows. An...
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Too Bright At Night?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Young scholars explain what causes light pollution and how it can be curtailed. They consider the negative consequences of nighttime lighting, enabled by the invention of electric lights at the close of the 19th Century.
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Too Bright at Night?

For Teachers 7th - 10th
Students reflect upon the causes and effects of light pollution in the night skies. First, they read articles provided and then do worksheets that are provided. They work in groups to discuss their conclusions.
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Let's Celebrate Diwali!

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Pupils utilize several short readings to investigate a variety of multicultural celebrations. The two key celebrations of Diwali and the Festival of Lights provide the background for the exploration.
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Imagining the Environment: Introduction

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Learners examine the importance of the environment including the setting, lights, sound, costumes, and props for a play or story. They visualize the appropriate environments and practice applying the techniques.
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Imagers: The Adventure of Echo the Bat Number to Pictures: How Satellite Images are Created

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students examine the three primary colors of light and design a numerical code to represent those colors. They tell how satellites use numbers to create satellite images after completing a number of experimental activities.
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Light and Laser

For Teachers 12th
Twelfth graders investigate the refractive index of water. In this physics activity, 12th graders explain the operation of laser. They write a lab report about the activity.
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Organizer
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What is Light?

For Students 4th - 8th
In this light worksheet, students write in 1 main idea and 2 supporting details that describe light. This worksheet is a graphic organizer.
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Photochemical Reactions Demonstration: Light Energy to Chemical Energy

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students study how light energy is converted to chemical energy. They examine the role of energy conversion in ozone formation.
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Lights! Cameras! Action!: Creating a Drama About the Lyme Art Colony

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Discuss the lives of artists in the Lyme Art Colony in the 1900s with this resource. Young historians write and perform a short scene depicting individuals who lived in the Griswold boardinghouse, used by the colony artists. They use the...
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You Light Up My Life

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders participate in various experiments involving light. They demonstrate how light travels in a straight line until it strikes an object. Students show ways that light can be reflected, refracted, and absorbed.
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To See or Not to See: The Colors of Light

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders describe and conduct an experiment that identifies the physical properties of light. They explore sources of visible light and an electromagnetic spectrum. Students explain the conversion of one form of energy to another.
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Light

For Students 2nd
In this light worksheet, 2nd graders focus on things that provide light. Students color the pictures that provide light, crossing out those that do not and list 3 more in each category and write them on the lines provided.
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What things let Light Pass Through?

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders classify objects according to how well light can pass through them and predict how well objects will transmit light. They experiment with objects to verify predictions while collecting, recording, and interpreting data...
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How Do The Colors of Light Mix?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Pupils investigate the mixing of light. They form a hypotheses to reason why color changes occur and they write conclusions and ask new questions arising from the investigation. Students identify the primary and complementary colors of...
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Help Wanted: A Lighting Engineer For Popular Rock Group

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers are assigned to groups, and determine each member's role in the group. They will design an experiment to determine a way to produce the three primary and five secondary colors. Students discuss color and mood. They...
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What is Light?

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students explore different types of light, and demonstrate reading comprehension skills, including reading strategies, inference, literal meaning, and critical analysis.
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Learning From Leaves: Adaptations To Differing Light Levels

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Young scholars, in groups, examine plants with different light levels. They are given plants from a tropical and desert region. They write a hypothesis at the beginning of the experiment.
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Exploring Light Phenomenon

For Students 5th - 10th
In this light worksheet, students click on the links in the questions about light to find the answers to the questions and then come back and answer the questions. Students answer 15 questions total.
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Organizer
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Sound, Heat, and Light

For Students 3rd - 6th
In this sound, heat, and light worksheet, students fill in a KWL chart for what they know, what they want to know, and what they learned about sound, heat, and light. Students complete 3 sections in the graphic organizer.
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Light and Optics

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students encounter different technology assignments that are related to light and optics. The activities are resource links that can be accessed directly from the directory that is given.
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Organizer
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What is Your Favorite Christmas Light Color? Bar Graph Recording Sheet

For Students 1st - 3rd
In this opinion bar graph worksheet, students receive a number and record their preference of Christmas light color in the worksheet. They examine the colored boxes at the bottom of the page to make their choice. There are no directions...
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Mr. E. Science

The Nature of Electromagnetic Waves

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
Imagine a presentation that covers electromagnetic waves, electromagnetic radiation, radio waves, microwaves, the visible light spectrum, UV, X-ray, and gamma rays. Here's one. Packed with facts and colorful illustrations, 11-slide...

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