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Open School Bc: Sound and Light

For Students Pre-K - 1st
The Sound and Light interactive investigates these two forms of energy. Students will enjoy exploring how sound and light are created, travel, and can be controlled.
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NASA

Rxte Learning Center: Frequency, Wave Length, and Energy Activity

For Students 9th - 10th
Resource focuses on the relationship between the frequency, wavelength and speed of light. Has a link to an interactive activity relating frequency, wavelength, and energy.
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Handout
Georgia State University

Georgia State University: Hyper Physics: Wave Motion

For Students 9th - 10th
Two wave graphs depicting a sine wave and relating the various characteristics (wavelength, amplitude, frequency, and period) of a wave to each other. The site includes an interactive JavaScript form in which the visitor enters one...
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Investigating Light: A Form of Energy You Can See

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Learners will investigate how light is a form of energy that travels as waves away from the source. The basis for this lesson is taken from the Houghton Mifflin science curriculum. In the lesson experiments, students will predict if...
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Physics Classroom

The Physics Classroom: Refraction and the Ray Model of Light: Boundary Behavior

For Students 9th - 10th
In this physics tutorial, focus on the refraction of light in great detail. Explore the conceptual and mathematical principles governing the bending of waves as they cross the boundary between two media.
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Other

Is the Speed of Light Constant?

For Students 9th - 10th
Using a question and answer format, this page discusses the question: "Is the Speed of Light Constant?" Discusses some of the history and experiments performed with light and the conclusions drawn from those findings.
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My Science Site

Light and Optics

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource provides information on light as well as links to additional sites on light and optics.
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Article
Creative Science Centre

Creative Science Centre: Mini Light Beam Receiver

For Students 9th - 10th
A very simple device to convert light into sound can be made by wiring a solar cell directly to headphones (or an earpiece). The solar cell converts light into electricity and the headphones convert electricity into sound. The limitation...
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Light & Sound, Light Reflection Relay

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
In this exploration, young scholars will investigate how light reflects off smooth surfaces, learn about angles of reflection, and apply that knowledge in a relay experiment.
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Discovery Education

Discovery Education: Science of Everyday Life: Light and Shadow [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st
In this lesson plan, students experience how light interacts with the environment by investigating relationships between shadows and light. Students will experiment with light by observing how light travels through materials and distances.
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Other

Ward's Science: Will the Light Shine?

For Teachers K - 1st
Students will determine the effect of placing objects made with different materials in the path of a beam of light. This lesson includes background information, guiding questions, directions, and a chart to record data.
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E-learning for Kids

E Learning for Kids: Science: North Sea: Why Do We Need Light?

For Students 1st - 3rd
Frederik is doing experiments about light to find out how it helps people to see things.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Stations of Light

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Student groups rotate through four stations to examine light energy behavior: refraction, magnification, prisms and polarization. They see how a beam of light is refracted (bent) through various transparent mediums. While learning how a...
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Physics Classroom

The Physics Classroom: Light Waves and Color Table of Contents

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

Chem1 Virtual Textbook: What Is Light?

For Students 9th - 10th
Acting as part of an overview on quantum theory, this section of the site answers the question, what is light? In answering the question, specific discussion is directed toward light waves and theories of light.
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Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement (SMILE)

Smile: Light (K 4)

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
This site provides two activities that students can do in class. One uses mirrors to reflect light beams whole another is making a kaleidescope.
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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 students. 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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Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Don't You Fret! Standing Waves on a Guitar

For Students 9th - 10th
In this project, you will investigate the physics of standing waves on guitar strings. You will learn about the different modes (i.e., patterns) of vibration that can be produced on a string, and you will figure out how to produce the...
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Article
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Electromagnetic Waves: The Electromagnetic Spectrum and Photons

For Students 9th - 10th
An article that discusses the coupling of an electric field with a magnetic field to create electromagnetic waves. Article also discusses how different types of electromagnetic waves have different wavelengths which forms the...
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Space Telescope Science Institute

Amazing Space: Star Light, Star Bright

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This online exploration provides an opportunity to identify the different properties of waves and the relationship that exists between energy, wavelength, and frequency. Correlate images from the Hubble Telescope to the wavelength,...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Quantifying Refraction

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students learn the relevant equations for refraction (index of refraction and Snell's law) and how to use them to predict the behavior of light waves in specified scenarios.
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eBook
Physics Classroom

The Physics Classroom: Waves, Sound and Light: Longitudinal Pulse

For Students 9th - 10th
The animation portrays a medium as a series of particles connected by springs. In this type of longitudinal wave the particles of the medium vibrate in a direction parallel to the direction of energy transport.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Physical Science: Wave Particle Theory

For Students 7th - 9th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] The wave-particle theory and what a photon is, and evidence that electromagnetic radiation is both a particle and a wave.

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