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    8L - Light - Medium Term Plan

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    This document outlines 9 lessons on light, focusing on skills development and lesson outcomes. The lessons cover topics like the nature of light, reflection, refraction, color, and vision. Practical tasks and demonstrations are incorporated to reinforce key concepts like the law of reflection, refraction through different materials, dispersion of color, and the parts and functions of the human eye.

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    8L - Light - Medium Term Plan

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    This document outlines 9 lessons on light, focusing on skills development and lesson outcomes. The lessons cover topics like the nature of light, reflection, refraction, color, and vision. Practical tasks and demonstrations are incorporated to reinforce key concepts like the law of reflection, refraction through different materials, dispersion of color, and the parts and functions of the human eye.

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    This document outlines 9 lessons on light, focusing on skills development and lesson outcomes. The lessons cover topics like the nature of light, reflection, refraction, color, and vision. Practical tasks and demonstrations are incorporated to reinforce key concepts like the law of reflection, refraction through different materials, dispersion of color, and the parts and functions of the human eye.

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    8L - Light - Medium Term Plan

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    This document outlines 9 lessons on light, focusing on skills development and lesson outcomes. The lessons cover topics like the nature of light, reflection, refraction, color, and vision. Practical tasks and demonstrations are incorporated to reinforce key concepts like the law of reflection, refraction through different materials, dispersion of color, and the parts and functions of the human eye.

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    8J - Light (9 lessons)

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    Skills Development: Planning
    Tables and Graphs
    Conclusions

    Lesson Outcomes Focus / Ideas Skills Development


    Tasks
    1 1, 2, 5, 6 Light Design a results table to
     Demo or class practical: use ray boxes and combs to show light travels in straight lines collect practical results.
     Class practical: identifying materials as opaque, translucent or transparent
     Drawing simple ray diagrams
     Describe light as a transverse wave and compare to a sound wave
    2 3, 4 Luminous and Non-Luminous Objects Use ray diagrams to model
     Describe how we see luminous and non-luminous objects how we see luminous and
     Draw ray diagrams to show how we see objects non-luminous objects.
     Class practical: making a pinhole camera
    3 7, 8 Reflection Use data to write a
     Class practical: reflection using plane mirrors – measuring the angles of incidence and conclusion about the law
    reflection of reflection.
     Use data to write a conclusion about the law of reflection
     Draw ray diagrams
    4 8, 9 Reflection Use ray diagrams to model
     Compare reflection of light from rough and smooth surfaces and use the terms specular and how a periscope works.
    diffuse reflection. Use diagrams from page 154-155 of Exploring Science 8.
     Describe the image formed by a plane mirror – use mirrors to do mirror writing
     Class practical: make a periscope
     Draw ray diagrams to show how a periscope works.

    5 10, 11 Refraction Use ray diagrams to model


     Class practical: refraction using glass blocks, measuring the angles of incidence and the path of light through
    refraction different materials.
     Draw ray diagrams
     Examples of refraction e.g. pencil in water / coin in water
     Use diagram C from page 156 of Exploring Science 8
    6 1, 10, 11 Explaining Refraction Use data to write a
     Interpret graph showing speed of light in different materials and write a conclusion. conclusion about how light
     Explain refraction using change in speed due to change in density travels through different
    materials.
     Waveform diagram
     Uses of refraction: converging lens demo
    7 14, 15, 16, How Do We See? Make a model eye.
    17, 18  Model eye / diagram from page 158 of Exploring Science 8 to identify parts of the eye and
    functions of each part. Produce a table to
     Demo: dissection of a pig’s eyeball compare the parts of the
    human eye and the parts
     Comparison of eyes and cameras – use a table
    of a camera.
     YouTube clip for BBC documentary – Seeing is Believing
    8 12, 13, 19 Colour Write a conclusion about
     Class practical: dispersion using prisms visible light based on
     Spectrum of visible light: ROYGBIV evidence from the
    dispersion practical.
     Make a colour wheel
     Identifying primary and secondary colours – link to cone cells.
     Brian Cox DVD
    9 17, 20, 21 Seeing Coloured Objects / Filters Design a results table to
     Describe how we see coloured objects (reflection / absorption) collect the practical
     Class practical / demo: coloured filters results.
     Ask MAB for PowerPoint

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