You will need: Topic Y3 Science Strand - Light
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Book about dark, e.g. Night Monkey, Day Monkey by Julia Donaldson, ISBN: 9780749748937, The
Owl who was Afraid of the Dark by Jill Tomlinson, ISBN: 9781405271974 or The Dark by Lemony
Snicket, ISBN: 9781408330036. Blindfold. Shoe box (or similar), black paint/paper, glue, scissors,
card, piece of translucent material, torch, small objects, including at least two similar ones of
different colours. Access to internet
http://resources.hwb.wales.gov.uk/VTC/light/eng/Introduction/default.htm
http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/clips/zw9rkqt
http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/clips/zrd9wmn
http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/clips/zwspyrd
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks2/science/physical_processes/light_dark/play/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/clips/zfp6n39
http://www2.bgfl.org/bgfl2/custom/resources_ftp/client_ftp/ks1/science/colour_and_light/start.cf
m?userid=229845
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks1/science/light/play/
A selection of shiny & dull objects or materials. Reflective/fluorescent strips and a fluorescent
safety jacket or cyclist’s jacket. Torch. Access to internet
http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningzone/clips/retroreflective-material-in-road-safety/8259.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningzone/clips/nocturnal-animals/12649.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningzone/clips/a-badger-explores-at-night/2427.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningzone/clips/seeing-in-the-dark-reflective-materials/3005.html
http://think.direct.gov.uk/education/early-years-and-primary/pupils/5-to-7/see/know-the-road/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks1/science/light/play/
http://www2.bgfl.org/bgfl2/custom/resources_ftp/client_ftp/ks1/science/colour_and_light/start.cf
m?userid=229845
Piece of obsidian if available. Mirrors. Torches. A5 sheets of paper with a perpendicular line draw
half way along the long side. Access to internet
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks2/science/physical_processes/light/play/
Examples of Braille (actual books if available or create some words yourself using a blunt tapestry
needle to ‘emboss’ the dots on paper). Thick black felt tip pens or similar. A range of different
sunhats. Access to internet
http://www.earthsunmoon.co.uk/
http://www.livebinders.com/play/play/255926
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/sdo/news/first-light.html
http://sunearthday.gsfc.nasa.gov/spaceweather/#
http://www.teachersmedia.co.uk/videos/ks1-science-light-and-seeing
http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningzone/clips/helping-to-see/9664.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningzone/clips/crossing-a-road-safely-with-technology/4437.html
Torches &/or desk lamps. (Rounders post & base, chalk if appropriate). Sticks, Plasticine, torches,
card, scissors, rulers, compass, protractors, flat pieces of wood or thick card, glue or sticky tape.
Access to internet
http://www.edumedia-sciences.com/en/a565-sun-s-apparent-path
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We will provide…
Dark Box instructions
Dark Box challenge
The Dark (2 poems)
Shining Things
(poem)
Wee Willie Winkie
(nursery rhyme)
Human faces
Lines of Symmetry
activities
Sun images
Facts about the Sun
Braille in use
Braille alphabet
Braille sentence
template
History of sundials
Images of sundials
How a sundial
works
Making sundials (2
methods – one
including template)
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Sets of a range of transparent, translucent and opaque materials, angle poise lamps or similar.
Thin card, scissors, coloured acetate papers. Tracing paper, tissue paper or similar translucent
paper. Dowelling, split pins, masking tape (or Sellotape). Cardboard box of relevant size, old sheet.
Access to internet
http://touregypt.net/featurestories/re.htm
http://www.indigenouspeople.net/howthegr.htm
http://www2.bgfl.org/bgfl2/custom/resources_ftp/client_ftp/ks1/science/colour_and_light/start.
cfm?userid=229845
Torches &/or desk lamps. Opaque objects for casting shadows. Tape measures or rulers. Access to
internet
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/scienceclips/ages/7_8/light_shadows.shtml
http://www2.bgfl.org/bgfl2/custom/resources_ftp/client_ftp/ks1/science/colour_and_light/start.
cfm?userid=229845
http://resources.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/revision/science/puzzle.html
http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/primer/java/scienceopticsu/shadows/!
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Sort the Objects
tables
Javanese Shadow
Puppet + outline
Shadows formed by
puppets
Stained Glass
Windows instructions
Simple Shadow
Puppet Theatre
instructions
Cloze sentences
about shadows