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eSchool Today

E School Today: Your Cool Facts and Tips on Light Pollution

For Students 4th - 7th
What is light pollution and why should we care about it? Learn what it is, the different types, sources of this type of pollution, the impact it has, and ways to combat it.
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Science Buddies

Science Buddies: How Does the Intensity of Light Change With Distance?

For Students 9th - 10th
How far would you have to travel so that the light of the full sun would provide "daylight" no brighter than twilight on Earth? This project describes a method to verify the inverse square law: how light, sound, electrical signals, and...
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Fundamentals of Light

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Students investigate the fundamentals of light including its source, how it is defined for measurements, how we perceive color, and the situations that make an...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Pictures Please: Traveling Light

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
In this lesson, students learn that light travels in a straight line from a light source and that ray diagrams help us understand how an image will be created by a lens. In the accompanying activity, students explore the concepts behind...
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Physics Classroom

The Physics Classroom: Light Waves and Color: The Path Difference

For Students 9th - 10th
After looking at a representative two-point source interference pattern with accompanying order numbers, students investigate the rationale behind the numbering system, and develop some mathematical equations that relate the features of...
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The Wonder of Science

The Wonder of Science: 1 Ps4 2: Illumination and Darkness

For Teachers K - 1st
This NSTA vetted source includes resources to allow students to make observations that prove objects in darkness need light to be illuminated. Included are assessment ideas, videos, examples, lesson plans, and photos of student work.
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Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Project Ideas: Grow Fungi That Fires at Light Sources

For Students 9th - 10th
In this science fair project, grow a culture of Pilobolus fungus and experiment with its ability to shoot spore sacs at light sources. The Science Buddies project ideas are set up consistently beginning with an abstract, objective, and...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: The Visual Spectrum

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
In this activity, students make simple spectroscopes (prisms) to look at different light sources. The spectroscopes allow students to see differing spectral distributions of different light sources.
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US National Archives

Nara: Teaching With Documents: Telephone and Light Patent Drawings

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A lesson plan about Alexander Graham Bell's patent for the telephone and Thomas Edison's patent for the electric lamp. Contains good background information and historically pertinent documents. It also discusses the role corporations...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Building a Fancy Spectrograph

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students create and decorate their own spectrographs using simple materials and holographic diffraction gratings. A holographic diffraction grating acts like a prism, showing the visual components of light. After building the...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Thomas Edison: Inventor and Entrepreneur

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Through a video and primary source activities, students will learn about Edison's remarkable business of innovation and some of his 1,093 patented devices.
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Utah Education Network

Uen: I'm So Bright! I Wear My Shades Indoors!

For Teachers 6th
This lesson engages students in learning about light through multiple sources. Students will learn how light is produced, reflected, refracted, and separated. Students will communicate their findings through an independent project that...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: A Spectral Mystery

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students use the spectrograph from the "Building a Fancy Spectrograph" activity to gather data about light sources. Using their data, they make comparisons between different light sources and make conjectures about the composition of a...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Using a Fancy Spectrograph

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students use the spectrograph from the "Building a Fancy Spectrograph" activity to gather data about different light sources. Using the data, they make comparisons between the light sources and make conjectures about the composition of...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Energy Conservation

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students are introduced to the idea that energy use impacts the environment and our wallets. They discuss different types of renewable and nonrenewable energy sources, as well as the impacts of energy consumption. Through a series of...
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Utah Education Network

Uen: Our Friend, the Sun

For Teachers 3rd
Understand the role of the sun as the source of heat and light for living things on earth.
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Utah Education Network

Uen: Managing Heat

For Teachers 3rd
Understand the role of the sun as the source of heat and light for living things on earth.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Completing the Circuit

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
In the everyday electrical devices we use - calculators, remote controls and cell phones - a voltage source such as a battery is required to close the circuit and operate the device. In this hands-on activity, students use a battery,...
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PBS

Pbs Teachers: Scientific American: Spider Web Making Stratagems

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Investigate spiders in Panama that use UV-reflecting silk in their webs to attract their prey. Build a device that traps flying insects, experimenting with different light sources to choose the best lure.

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