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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Physical Science: Visible Light and Matter

For Students 7th - 9th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] How visible light interacts with matter and classifying matter in terms of light.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Physical Science: Law of Reflection

For Students 7th - 9th
[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.
Interactive
South Carolina Educational Television

Know It All Media: Light and Color

For Students 3rd - 8th
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.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Physical Science: Reflection of Light

For Students 4th - 5th
[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.
Handout
Georgia State University

Georgia State University: Hyper Physics: Behavior of Incident Light

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: How Light Travels

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
In this lesson plan, the learners 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...
Interactive
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Plix: Wave Interactions: Law of Reflection

For Students 9th - 10th
[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.
Handout
Physics Classroom

The Physics Classroom: The Law of Reflection

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
Website
Curated OER

Ray Optics, Light Reflection

For Students 9th - 10th
Site provides a diagram as well as a scientific explanation of light reflection. Includes links to ray optics, light and physics.
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Light & Sound, Light Reflection Relay

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
For this exploration, students 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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E-learning for Kids

E Learning for Kids: Science: Loch Ness: What Happens to Light When It Is Reflected?

For Students 4th - 6th
Ian and his family are on holiday near Loch Ness. Find out about the Loch Ness monster, and learn about light and reflection.
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My Science Site

B J Mst: Behaviour of Light

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource explores light reflection and refraction by providing colorful illustrations and examples.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Needing Illumination: Investigating Light

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
This is the first lesson of this unit to introduce light. In this lesson, learners learn the five words that describe how light interacts with objects: "transparent," "translucent," "opaque," "reflection" and "refraction."
Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Holt Physics: Brightness of Light

For Teachers 9th - 10th
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.
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Investigating Light Properties

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
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...
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E-learning for Kids

E Learning for Kids: North Sea: How Do We Measure the Intensity of Light?

For Students 4th - 6th
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.
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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
Students 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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Other

Easyphysics: Chapter 10 Light Waves

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
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University of Illinois

University of Illinois Urbana Champaign: Light and Optics

For Students 9th - 10th
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...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: The Energy of Light

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
In this introduction to light energy, students learn about reflection and refraction as they learn that light travels in wave form. Through hands-on activities, they see how prisms, magnifying glasses and polarized lenses work. They also...
Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Light Scavengers

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
In this activity, students examine various materials and investigate how they interact with light. Students use five new vocabulary words (translucent, transparent, opaque, reflection and refraction) to describe how light interacts with...
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Optical Society

Optical Society of America: Exploring the Science of Light: Classroom Activities

For Students 9th - 10th
Experiments and activities for investigating the science of light, as well as in-depth explanations of some of the light principles.
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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

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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