Light and Optics Activities Resources
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Science and Art: Making Shadows
Students draw shadows into the picture, based on the position of the sun. This hands-on activity is an excellent…Subjects:SciencePhysicsLight and Optics -
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Shadow Drawings
Try a printable science activity that focuses on understanding shadows.Subjects:SciencePhysicsLight and Optics -
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Activity: Speed of Light in Different Materials
Students will study the table in this printable to answer questions about the speed of light in different materials.Subjects:SciencePhysicsLight and Optics -
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Can a Visible Light Outshine Infrared Radiation?
Familiarize your pupils with two types of electromagnetic radiation with this printable science activity. Pupils use…SubjectsSciencePhysicsLight and Optics -
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Activity: Objects and Light
Students will practice classifying the objects in this printable about light as transparent, translucent, opaque,…Subjects:SciencePhysicsLight and Optics -
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Light
Try a printable science activity that focuses on types of light: transparent, opaque, and translucent.Subjects:SciencePhysicsLight and Optics -
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Creating Shadows
Try a printable science activity that focuses on shadows.Subjects:SciencePhysicsLight and Optics -
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Science and Math: Blocking Light
Students build a light-blocking art project.Subjects:SciencePhysicsLight and Optics -
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The Light Bulb
Interesting facts and fun activities related to the invention of the light bulb.Subjects:ScienceLight and OpticsInventions -
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Light the Lights!
Try a printable science activity that focuses on identifying light sources.Subjects:SciencePhysicsLight and Optics -
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Investigate Activity: Observing Light Through Different Materials
Students investigate how different materials transmit light, and record their observations. Materials list, advance…Subjects:SciencePhysicsLight and Optics -
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Science Skill: Inferring with Shadows
Students infer what their partner has used to make a shadow on the wall.Subjects:SciencePhysicsLight and Optics -
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Investigating Reflection of Light
Try a printable science activity that focuses on light reflection.Subjects:SciencePhysicsLight and Optics -
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Night Lights
Try a printable science activity that focuses on light transmission at night.Subjects:SciencePhysicsLight and Optics -
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Lights Out!
Try a printable science activity that focuses on the importance of light.Subjects:SciencePhysicsLight and Optics -
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Make a Periscope
Try a printable science activity that focuses on light reflection.Subjects:SciencePhysicsLight and Optics -
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Light Rays
Try a printable science activity that focuses on reflecting light.Subjects:SciencePhysicsLight and Optics -
ACTIVITIES
In the Spotlight
Students create a working model of a spotlight system that will produce the primary and secondary colors of light in…Subjects:SciencePhysicsLight and Optics -
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Science and Art: Light Combinations
Students think about what components make up a light bulb, and attempt to draw a new one of their own.Subjects:SciencePhysicsLight and Optics -
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Explore Activity: Exploring Colors in Light
Students shine light through a prism and observe the light on white paper. Materials list, advance preparation…Subjects:SciencePhysicsLight and Optics -
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Science Skill: Making Operational Definitions
Students use a chart to record the measurement of classmates' shadows, explore making shadows with the flashlight and…Subjects:SciencePhysicsLight and Optics -
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Illuminating Illusions
The eye actually retains an image for about a tenth of a second after the image has passed. Explore this concept by…Subjects:ScienceHuman Body and AnatomyLight and Optics -
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B. J. & T. J. Bear Discover Light Reflections
Try a printable science activity that focuses on light reflection.Subjects:SciencePhysicsLight and Optics -
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It's My Skin!
Try a printable science activity that focuses on exercising caution with heat and light.Subjects:Five SensesLight and ColorHuman Biology
