Light and Optics Activities

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Light and Optics

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Shadow Drawings

Try a printable science activity that focuses on understanding shadows.

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Light 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…

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Light 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.

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Light and Optics

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Creating Shadows

Try a printable science activity that focuses on shadows.

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Light 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,…

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Light 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…

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Physics

Light and Optics

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Investigating Reflection of Light

Try a printable science activity that focuses on light reflection.

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Light and Optics

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Make a Periscope

Try a printable science activity that focuses on light reflection.

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Light and Optics

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ACTIVITIES

In the Spotlight

Students create a working model of a spotlight system that will produce the primary and secondary colors of light in…

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Physics

Light and Optics

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Science and Math: Blocking Light

Students build a light-blocking art project.

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Light 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.

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Light 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.

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Light 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…

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Light 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…

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Human Body and Anatomy

Light and Optics

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The Light Bulb

Interesting facts and fun activities related to the invention of the light bulb.

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Light and Optics

Inventions

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B. J. & T. J. Bear Discover Light Reflections

Try a printable science activity that focuses on light reflection.

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Light and Optics

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Night Lights

Try a printable science activity that focuses on light transmission at night.

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Light and Optics

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Light the Lights!

Try a printable science activity that focuses on identifying light sources.

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Light and Optics

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It's My Skin!

Try a printable science activity that focuses on exercising caution with heat and light.

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Five Senses

Light and Color

Human Biology

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Lights Out!

Try a printable science activity that focuses on the importance of light.

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Light and Optics

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Light

Try a printable science activity that focuses on types of light: transparent, opaque, and translucent.

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Light Rays

Try a printable science activity that focuses on reflecting light.

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Light and Optics

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LESSON PLANS

Can a Visible Light Outshine Infrared Radiation?

Familiarize your pupils with two types of electromagnetic radiation with this printable science activity. Pupils use…

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